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Christianity  fitted  for  Universal  Diffusion- 


SERMON, 


DELIVERED  IN  NORTH  YARMOUTH,  JUNE  28, 1837 


BETOBI  THE 


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BY  THOMAS  T.  STONE, 

Pastor  of  the  Congregaiional  Church  in  East  Machias. 


PORTLAND: 
MERRILL,  AND  BYRA3I, 

1837. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Maine  Missionary  Society.  North-Yarmouth,  Juno 
28,1837.         '  ' 

Voted,  That  Rev.  Asa  Cummincis  bp  a  CommiMpp  to  prespnt  the  thanks 
of  tin*  Society  In  Re«  Thomas  T  Stone  lor  his  Sermon  before  them,  thin 
day,  am)  request  a  copy  for  the  press. 

Artur,  E.  U1LLETT,  flee.  Sec. 


6ER1ROX. 


PSALM  LXXII:  17. 
HlS  NAME    SH\LL    ENDURE    FOREVER:    HIS    NAME    SHALL    BB 

covrtvuEn  as  Lqnq  as  thr  sum:  and  men   shall   be 

BLESSED  IN  HIM."  ALL  NATIONS  SHALL  CALL  HIM  BLESSED. 

Assuming  that  this  Psalm,  and  the  text  of  course,  refer  to 
the  Messiah,  we  are  presented  with  two  great  predictions  con- 
cerning him  :  the  first,  that  his  dominion  shall  be  perpetual ; 
the  second,  that  its  influences  shall  be  universal.  With  the 
instructions  of  prophecy  to  guide  and  limit  our  inquiries,  we 
may  well  look  at  these  predictions  as  perfectly  agreeing  with 
our  own  reason  and  experience.  Let  us,  brethren,  devote  to 
the  subject  this  hour  of  worship.  From  ourselves  lrom  the 
past  and  the  present,  let  us  turn  our  thoughts  to  others  and 
to  the  future.  Agitated  and  depressed  by  the  history  of  war 
and  woe,  nay  by  the  presence  even  in  the  church  of  unkind- 
ness  and  contention,  let  us  soothe  and  gladden  our  minds  by 
the  prophecy,  with  which  reason  concurs,  of  future  peace  and 

Atheistic  Philosophers  have  dreamed  cf  the  perfection  of 
man  as  something  to  be  reached  without  the  influence  of  reli- 
gion and  of  energetic  j;overnment.  Their  error  has  been  less 
in  expecting  the  end,  than  in  withdrawing  the  means.  They 
are  right  in  ascribing  the  miseries  of  men  to  the  vices  of  indi- 
viduals and  of  governments.  They  are  also  right  in  suppos* 
ing  that  those  vices  admit  a  remedy.  But  it  is  utterly  wrong 
to  presume  that  this  remedy  consists  in  eradicating  the  princi* 
pies  of  religion.  It  involves  a  forgetfulness,  that  religion,  as 
a  matter  of  intellect,  is  the  tracing  of  effects  to  tbeir  causes,  the 


interpretation  of  the  language  which  nature  speaks,  the  solu- 
tion of  mysteries  around  us,  and  of  deeper  mysteries  within. 
It  forgets  also,  that  religion,  as  a  matter  of  feeling  and  affec- 
tion, is  the  only  power  which  at  once  allays  the  feverish  pas- 
sions and  quickens  the  nohlest  emotions  and  principles,  thus 
sealing  up  the  sources  of  woe,  and  opening  the  fountains  of 
happiness.  We  may  derive  profit  from  these  errors.  We 
may  learn  to  reverence  religion  more  as  the  nohlest  discipline 
both  of  the  understanding  and  of  the  affections.  Hence  we 
may  take  for  granted  that  Christianity,  religion  in  its  purest 
form,  wants  only  universal  prevalence,  to  work  a  change  great- 
er and  more  glorious  than  human  philosophy  has  ever  portray- 
ed. That  it  is  destined  to  universal  prevalence,  is  indeed  a 
suhject  of  frequent  discussion,  a  subject  so  noble,  however, 
so  purifying,  so  quickening  to  every  high  purpose,  especially 
to  that  which  now  calls  us  together,  that  we  may  be  excused 
in  reverting  to  it ;  the  rather,  as  we  shall  confine  our  remarks 
to  the  probabilities  and  reasons  involved  in  its  own  essential 
nature. 

An  ingenious  argument  on  this  subject  has  been  derived 
from  the  intrinsic  power  of  Christianity  to  prevail  over  eve- 
ry other  system  of  religion  ;  a  power,  of  which  the  existence 
is  inferred,  not  from  its  truth,  not  from  its  divine  origin,  not 
from  the  agency  of  God  accompanying  it;  but  from  facts  in 
its  actual  establishment  and  progress.  It  gained  an  early  tri- 
umph over  the  idolatries  of  Greece  and  Rome.  It  recovered 
itseli  from  papal  corruptions.  It  has  gained  a  more  recent 
victory  over  the  sceptical  philosophy.  Thus  tried  by  pagan- 
ism and  infidelity  without  its  enclosures,  and  by  apostacy 
within,  it  has  proved  its  power  over  each  ;  and,  in  what  it  has 
already  done,  has  furnished  the  pledge  of  what  it  may  here- 
after do,  when  its  advocates  become  more  united  and  zealous. 
Its  indestructible  vigor,  and  with  this  its  self-diffusive  power, 
are  also  inferred  from  its  progress  on  our  own  continent,  and 
from  the  movements  of  the  present  age  toward  the  conversion 


ef  the  world.  Now  what  is  there  in  Christianity  thus  imper- 
ishable and  diffusive?  Assuming  the  historical  fact,  let  us 
ask.  what  is  the  element,  the  secret  principle,  of  that  power 
which  the  Gospel  has  thus  developed  ?  The  question,  it 
seems  to  me,  will  he  readily  answered  by  laying  open  this 
simple  proposition,  Christianity  is  adapted  perfectly 
to  the  nature  of  man.  It  is  not  a  local  institution  ;  it  is 
not  a  temporary  expedient.  It  is  not  made  for  one  nation  or 
class  of  men.  It  has  no  limits  to  its  fitness  hut  those  of  the 
world.  It  has  no  bound  to  its  continuance  but  the  duration 
of  the  human  race.  It  is  a  religion  for  man;  for  man  in  ev- 
ery state  and  every  age.  If  so,  we  may  fairly  expect  its  Gnal 
triumph  over  every  other  religion. 

It  is  deemed  a  very  clear  case,  and  this  is  my  first  remark 
in  illustrating  the  argument,  that  human  nature  demands  some 
form  of  religion.  The  whole  history  of  the  world  proves  it. 
No  age  so  barbarous  as  to  be  insensible  to  the  presence  of  an 
unseen  power;  none  so  enlightened  as  to  throw  back  the 
whole  idea  of  God  among  forgotten  things  of  darkness.  If 
there  have  been  atheists,  they  are  individuals,  not  communi- 
ties;  and  if  they  cheated  their  understandings  out  of  the  belief 
that  God  exists,  they  did  not,  for  this  is  impossible,  takeaway 
from  their  hearts  the  necessity  of  his  existence  to  their  true 
welfare.  And  the  feelings,  let  it  be  remembered,  have  as 
much  to  do  with  religion  as  the  understanding.  If  the  latter 
demands  the  existence  of  an  Eternal  Power  to  solve  the  num- 
berless problems  which  it  finds  in  searching  the  mysteries  of 
nature,  the  former  even  more  urgently  demand  an  Infinite 
Goodness  to  fill  and  satisfy  them.  As  no  fable  is  more  ab- 
surd than  the  notion  that  the  universe  exists  without  a  crea- 
tive and  controlling  mind,  so  no  feeling  is  more  repugnant  to 
the  instinctive  impulses  of  the  heart,  than  what  grows  out  of 
the  impression  that  it  is  forever  left  without  any  thing  to  meet 
its  perpetual  grasp  after  immense,  unbounded  good.  False 
theories  of  religion,  it  is  true,  do  not  satisfy  reason,  or  set  itfae 


heart  at  rest.  But  they  come  nearer  to  it  than  atheigm.— 
They  give  something  which  is  spiritual  to  the  heart ;  whereas 
atheism  despoils  it  of  all  but  the  outward  and  perishable,  and 
leaves  it  like  the  scorpion  surrounded  by  fire,  to  wither  in  its 
despair  and  perish  by  its  own  sting,  "around  it  flame,  within 
it  death." 

It  is  scarcely  more  evident  that  human  nature  demands  some 
religion,  than  it  is, — and  this  is  my  second  remark, — that  it 
asks  for  such  a  religion  as  that  of  Jesus  Christ.  The  Gospel, 
1  am  well  aware,  is  offensive  to  the  depravity  which  pervades 
and  corrupts  the  human  mind.  It  reveals  a  God  against  whom 
selfishness  and  pride  constitute  a  direct  enmity,  and  v.  Saviour 
moreover,  whose  doctrine  and  whose  sacrifice  bring  down  all 
high  thoughts  and  spread  through  the  soul  a  dark  and  most  op- 
pressive consciousness  of  guilt.  Yet  this  very  revelation  is 
essential  to  its  fitness  for  such  a  being  as  man.  We  have 
an  illustration  in  the  story  of  the  wonnn  of  Sychar,  with  whom 
Jesus  conversed  at  the  well.  It  could  be  no  very  pleasant  thing 
to  her,  that  he  laid  open  her  depravity,  specifying  the  very  sins 
of  which  she  was  guilty.  But  this  very  disclosure  is  the 
ground  of  her  address  to  the  citizens;  "Come,  see  a  man 
which  told  me  all  things  that  ever  I  did:  is  not  this  the  Christ?" 
The  reasoning  seems  to  have  been  this:  Jesus  declared  himself 
to  be  the  Messiah;  his  declaration  is  confirmed,  its  truth  evinced, 
by  his  supernatural  knowledge  of  my  character  and  history. 
A  similar  process  of  reasoning  goes  far  in  all  ages  to  produce 
the  s.ime  conclusion.  Christ  in  his  word  lays  open  the  heart, 
and  tells  man  the  story  of  himself.  He  shows  the  sinner  what 
he  has  done.  He  sets  before  him  his  own  ima^e.  He  awakens 
and  repeals  his  inmost  consciousness.  No  pleasant  disclosure, 
it  is  true  ;  but  yet  so  just,  so  distinct;  so  vivid,  that  he  does 
not  readily  get  rid  of  it.  Some  will  feel  and  Lelieve;  an  1  of 
those  who  do  not,  there  are  few  who  succeed  in  casting  off  all 
conviction;  revile  and  evade  as  they  will,  it  is  not  easy  to 
silence  the  secret  witness,  the  voice  within  the  soul  repeating 


and  attesting  the  outward  word  of  God.  A  religion  which 
should  bring  no  charge  of  sin  against  man,  might  indeed  be  less 
hated  than  Christianity;  but  it  could  be  neither  felt  nor  be- 
lieved. It  could  not  reach  the  case  of  the  sinner.  It  could 
not  tell  him  what  be  had  done.  It  would  therefore  want 
adaptation  to  his  state.  Should  it  ever  gain  a  temporary 
prevalence,  it  would  therefore  cease  in  a  little  while  to  spread 
and  be  strong.  Man  calls  aloud  for  something  which  at  once 
arouses  and  utters  his  own  consciousness. 

To  such  a  call  Christianity  responds.  It  does  more  ;  it  re- 
veals a  remedy.  Its  provision  for  taking  away  sin,  is  as  ample 
as  its  disclosure  of  sin  :  it  spreads  itself  over  the  whole  extent 
cf  human  guilt.  The  law  of  redemption,  which  constitutes 
its  very  essence,  carries  in  its  oneness  and  its  power  evidence 
of  its  origin.  We  believe  it,  it  is  fitted  to  secure  universal  be- 
lief, because  through  one  revealed  fact  it  brings  and  holds 
together  the  chaotic  elements  of  the  moral  world.  Goto  any 
man  of  sound  mind,  and  set  before  him  the  great  law  of  at- 
traction in  matter.  Show  him  how  it  comprehends  and  recon- 
ciles all  the  diversities  of  motion  on  the  earth  and  in  the 
heavens;  he  may  be  amazed,  he  will  stand  awhile  in  still  awe, 
but  he  yields  an  unforced,  unbidden  faith.  Go  then  to  the 
man  whose  soul  is  searching  after  truth,  and  worshipping  in  its 
blindness  the  unknown  God.  Let  him  understand  and  feel 
his  guilt ;  open  before  his  eye  the  chaos  which  sin  has  pro- 
duced and  overspread  with  darkness.  It  is  all  confusion  to  his 
mind;  the  whole  history  of  man  is  a  dark,  unintelligible  enigma; 
the  character  of  God  is  a  deep  mystery ;  the  end  of  his  own 
being  is  far  out  of  his  sight.  He  is  just  where  the  philosopher 
was  before  the  law  of  attraction  was  laid  open,  encompassed 
by  huge  masses  of  disjointed  facts.  Now  reveal  to  him  the 
law  of  union  and  symmetry,  "God  was  in  Christ  reconciling  the 
world  unto  himself."  This  law  brings  together  and  illuminates 
facts;  so  discordant  and  dark  before,  the  sinfulness  of  man  and 
4he  perfection  of  God.     The  extent  and  magnitude  of  the> 


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evil  are  seen,  not  the  less  clearly,  but  the  more  clearly.  If 
anywhere  in  fact,  it  is  at  the  cross  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
that  the  sinner  relents,  sees,  and  in  seeing;  mourns,  and  in 
mourning  forsakes,  his  wickedness.  Here  also  he  sees,  if  any- 
where, the  glory  of  God,  and  adores  his  wisdom,  his  justice 
and  his  goodness  embodied  and  embracing  the  universe. — 
What  he  might  have  faintly  hoped  to  find  true,  but  hardly 
dared  to  believe,  comes  like  the  dawn  over  his  soul.  Re- 
demption by  the  blood  of  God's  only  Son  furnishes  clear 
illustration,  and  strong  proof,  and  a  most  affecting  example,  of 
what  nature  hath  furnished  hints  and  scripture  testimony, — 
God  is  Love.  So  simple,  and  withal  so  affecting",  is  the  solu- 
tion which  the  death  of  Christ  for  the  sins  of  men  furnishes  to 
our  inquiries  about  our  own  destiny  and  the  divine  attributes, 
that  we  are  at  once  constrained  to  believe,  and  filled  with 
tenderness  and  joy.  The  history  of  missions  has  plainly 
shown  that  this  statement  involves  no  vain  imagination.  It  is 
not  the  abstract  delineation  of  the  divine  character,  as  God 
has  revealed  it  in  nature  and  in  his  word,  by  which  the  heathen 
sinner  has  been  led  out  of  darkness  into  light.  The  story  of 
the  crucifixion  unsealed  his  closed  eyes,  and  opened  before 
him  an  unbounded  vision  of  glory. 

Another  Jeature  we  may  mention,  essential  and  most 
favorable  to  the  wide  diffusion  of  Christianity.  It  assures  the 
believer  that  in  every  worthy  enterprize  and  virtuous  effort, 
the  power  of  God  is  with  him.  As  the  conciousness  of  guilt 
makes  us  feel  the  necessity  of  forgiveness,  and  prepares  us  to 
rejoice  with  unutterable  joy  in  the  revelation  of  Jesus  the 
Saviour ;  so  the  consciousness  of  being  weak  to  good,  fits  us 
to  welcome  every  intimation,  much  more  what  can  be  deemed 
assurance,  of  divine  strength  to  concur  with  every  good  desire 
and  effort.  And  still  farther,  as  sacrifice  for  sin  is  a  doctrine 
which  has  gone  abroad  into  all  the  earth,  and  either  from  the 
impulse  of  nature  or  from  imperfect  reflections  of  revealed 
light,  has  reached,  although  in  a  corrupt  and  broken  shape, 


nearly  all  to  whom  the  guilt  of  sin  belongs,  thus  fitting  them 
to  perceive  with  the  less  difficulty  what  a  significance  there  is 
in  the  death  of  Christ ;  so  the  presence  and  aid  of  some  in- 
visible power  are  among  the  familiar  suggestions  of  every 
religion,  indicating  the  want,  we  may  say,  perhaps,  shadowing 
out  the  truth,  which  the  Bible  recognizes  in  its  promise  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  A  promise  it  is,  suiting  exactly  the  exigencies 
of  man.  If  he  is  weak,  it  is  the  promise  of  strength  ;  if 
ignorant,  of  knowledge  ;  if  sorrowful,  of  consolation  ;  if  sinful, 
of  renovation  to  holiness.  Man  is  fainting  with  thirst ;  this 
promise  opens  a  well  of  water  which  springeth  up  into  ever- 
lasting life.  Famishing  in  the  wilderness,  he  receives  in  this 
a  true  celestial  manna.  Sinking  down  in  fathomless  darkness, 
he  beholds  here  an  undecaying  light  through  which  he  may 
rise  to  God.  Dead  in  trespasses  and  sins,  he  welcomes  in  the 
Holy  Spirit  a  life-giving  principle,  the  power  which  first  in- 
spired the  human  soul  breathing  into  it  immortal  energies. 

Again.  Christianity  possesses  a  self-diffusive  power  in  the 
form  of  its  application  to  human  affections.  The  votaries  of 
other  religious  systems  pay  much  homage  to  the  objects  of 
their  worship.  They  fear  them,  they  pray,  they  offer  sacrifices 
unto  them.  But  we  hear  little  of  love.  What  indeed  have 
they  to  love  ?  Who  could  think  of  loving  a  Jupiter,  a  Vishnu, 
or  any  other  god  who  is  like  those  in  ancient  or  modern  fable  ? 
The  Gospel,  on  the  contrary,  while  it  demands  love  as  its 
great  principle,  presents  an  infinite  object  of  this  affection. — 
The  God  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  worthy  of  all  love.  His 
character  is  fitted  to  awaken  deep  emotion,  to  call  forth  every 
glad  and  joyful  feeling  of  the  heart.  Nor  from  individuals  of 
a  certain  class  alone,  but  from  all,  even  the  most  unlike  each 
other  in  outward  seeming ;  and  while  even  the  little  child  or 
the  young  rustic  may  commune  in  unutterable  love  with  the 
living  God,  the  white-haired  sage  may  be  rapt  into  the  same 
communion  and  filled  with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory. 
Christianity  holds  out  indeed  no  phantom  to  the  fancy  ;    but 


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then  it  is  so  satisfying  to  the  conscious  necessities  of  our 
nature,  so  perfect  in  the  objects  and  motives  which  it  presents 
to  a  reasonable  and  therefore  fervent  affection,  that  when 
brought  into  competition  either  with  fantastic  schemes  of 
worship,  or  with  a  bare  and  barren  scepticism,  it  must  ultimately 
prevail.  It  is  alike  a  source  of  inward  bliss  to  the  untaught 
mind,  and  a  solution  of  doubts  for  the  inquisitive  sage.  There- 
fore when  other  religions  grow  feeble  with  age  and  sink  into 
contempt,  Jesus  Christ  comes  forth  in  the  teachings  and  the 
power  of  his  Gospel  to  stay  the  tide  of  unbelief,  and  through 
the  inspiration  of  a  reasonable  faith  to  excite  a  calm  and  fervid 
and  holy  devotion. 

This  whole  train  of  remark  is  set  in  a  stronger  light  when 
we  observe,  that  the  poiver  of  Christianity,  through  its  dis- 
closures of  sin,  its  revelation  of  an  expiatory  sacrifice,  its 
promise  of  a  sanctifying  power,  and  its  excitement  of  affec- 
tion, goes  to  establish  what  man  feels  in  himself  to  be  true 
virtue.  Much  as  we  may  be  disposed  to  smile  at  the  enthusi- 
asm of  Plato,  when  he  exclaimed  that  Virtue,  were  it  em- 
bodied and  made  visible,  would  awaken  the  fervid  love  of  man, 
we  certainly  cannot  doubt  that  man,  from  the  very  constitution 
of  his  mind,  approves  it  as  most  excellent,  and  acknowledges 
it  as  the  true  and  highest  glory  of  the  univesre.  Nor  can  any 
man  impartially  search  the  records  of  our  faith,  without  feeling 
that  they  present  the  very  case  which  the  Athenian  Philos- 
pher  supposed,  embodying  Perfect  Virtue  in  the  declared  Son 
of  God.  Here  is  its  living  form  manifested  for  the  very  end 
of  assimilating  men  to  himself.  True,  Jesus  Christ  was  cru- 
cified ;  but  he  had  followers  notwithstanding.  Men  still  reject 
him  ;  but  he  has  followers  still.  Nor  cau  we  think  of  any 
cause  that  has  hitherto  drawn  such  multitudes  to  him,  which 
is  adventitious  and  temporary.  If  drawn,  as  we  believe,  by 
his  Spirit,  forming  them  to  excellence  like  his  own,  that  Spirit 
js  unchangeable  ;  if,  as  the  sceptic  imagines,  by  some  other 
power,  what  shall  destroy  or  even  diminish  its  agency  ?     The 


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conscience  of  man  will  forever  retain  its  sympathy  with  the 
immutable  holiness  of  the  Gospel.  Men  may,  to  be  sure,  dis- 
obey both  religion  and  conscience;  and  the  spiritual  attributes 
moreover,  which  attach  many  to  Christianity,  may  repel  others 
from  it.  Thus  while  adapted  to  the  conscience  and  the  moral 
necessities  of  all,  there  are  those  who  will  prefer  to  it  the  in- 
dulgence of  their  own  ungodly  lusts.  But  there  can  never 
cease  to  be  those  who  will  recognize,  in  its  godlike  character, 
not  only  the  response  to  their  own  conscience,  but  the  quick- 
ening principle  of  their  inmost  being.  The  conclusion  is  well 
established  by  lact.  Wherever  the  Bible  has  gone,  either  with 
or  without  the  strength  of  man  to  sustain  it,  there  it  has  gath- 
ered, by  a  sort  of  elective  attraction,  a  community  of  believers 
whom  it  has  formed  to  its  own  character  through  the  influence 
of  its  own  wonderful  affinities  to  the  moral  nature,  and  the 
moral  impotence  even,  of  mankind.  The  experiment  has 
been  tried  so  often  and  in  such  various  circumstances,  that  its 
future  results  admit  no  question. 

Corresponding  with  these  views,  and  already  alluded  to,  we 
may  remark  another  peculiarity  of  the  Christian  religion,  its 
adaptation  to  the  whole  mind  in  every  stage  of  its  progress, 
The  systems  of  heathenism  are  splendid  and  awful  pictures  to 
the  fancy ;  but  they  present  nothing  to  satisfy  the  reason.— 
They  do  not  invite  discussion.  They  shrink  from  it,  and  melt 
away  like  frost-work  before  the  rays  of  heaven.  Hence  they 
may  stand  unshaken  during  those  periods  and  states  of  society 
in  which  fancy  and  fantastic  feelings  are  predominant.  Like 
the  toys  of  infancy,  they  may  please  man  while  he  remains  an 
infant,  As  his  reason  advances  toward  its  maturity,  and  he 
begins  to  inquire  and  discuss,  he  is  found  to  be  dissatisfied. — 
But  Christianity  answers  the  demands  of  reason.  It  has  co 
pompous  ritual,  no  splendid  processions  or  acts  of  worship  ;  but 
in  its  simplicity  and  intrinsic  excellence  and  glory,  it  addresses 
itself  through  the  reason  and  conscience  to  the  whole  moral 
nature,  which  it  renews  and  ennobles  according  to   the  model 


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of  that  living  holiness  which  it  enjoins,  and  of  which  it  presents 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  human  model  and  the  potent  inspirer. 

If,  when  fully  set  before  men,  the  Gospel  has  not  power  to 
select  and  gather  to  itself  so  many  from  all  classes  of  men,  one 
only  question  remains :  Is  it  probable  that  it  will,  in  fact,  be 
set  before  all  men?  Or,  to  change  the  shape  of  the  question, 
Is  it  to  be  expected  that  the  disciples  of  Jesus  will  put  forth 
those  energetic  efforts  which  are  necessary  to  the  universal 
diffusion  of  his  name  and  faith  ?  This  question  certainly 
brings  us  to  a  pause.  It  suggests  the  problem,  most  difficult 
to  be  solved  of  any  in  the  whole  argument.  There  is  cer- 
tainly danger  at  this  point.  Christianity  has  already  existed 
in  its  matures!  form  more  than  eighteen  hundred  years,  without 
ever-  gaining  that  devoted  and  energetic  attachment  which 
should  diffuse  it  through  the  whole  world  :  who  shall  say  that 
the  case  will  ever  alter  ?  that  men  will  do  more  for  the  gospel 
than  they  have  done  ?  Perhaps  we  may  not  pronounce  with 
absolute  certainty  on  this  question,  so  long  as  we  judge  only 
from  the  nature  of  the  case.  But  even  the  nature  of  the  case 
may  give  us  hope,  reasonable  hope,  if  not  certainty.  We  may 
present  the  argument  by  reference  to  an  analogous  instance: 
True  freedom,  both  political  and  personal,  will  be  probably 
universal.  But  it  is  far  from  being  so  now.  Nations  are  yet 
trodden  down  by  despotic  power ;  millions  of  men  are  yet 
held  in  domestic  slavery.  And  multitudes  withal,  by  whom 
their  own  liberty  has  been  held  as  a  most  precious  boon,  have 
been  faithless  to  the  voice  which  called  them  to  be  its  ministers 
to  mankind.  And  yet  we  trust  that  this  voice  will  hereafter 
be  heard  and  obeyed.  We  trust  that  six  thousand  years  will 
not  be  found  to  have  been  teaching  men  their  rights  and  their 
duties  for  nothing.  Just  so  with  respect  to  Christianity.  We 
can  hardly  think  that  the  ages  of  its  progress  will  pass  without 
effect.  We  look  rather  that  its  advocates  will  recover  the 
spirit  of  its  earlier  missionaries ;  that  they  will  regain  lost 
wisdom  :  that  they  will  go  back  to  first  principles  and  act  upon 


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them  ;  that  as  the  church  grows  older,  the  fruits  of  growth, 
not  of  decline,  will  be  borne ;  that  Christians  will  recognize 
theirs  as  a  religion  for  the  world,  and  that  each  will  deem  him- 
self a  steward  of  God,  employed  for  the  express  purpose  of 
aiding,  in  the  highest  degree  possible  to  him,  the  universal 
diffusion  and  dominion  of  the  most  holy  faith.  Henceforth 
indeed  the  enlightened  Christian  must  feel  that  there  is  woe  to 
him,  if  he  refuse  to  bear  and  do  his  part  in  hastening  the  reign 
of  Jesus  Christ  over  the  whole  earth,  and  in  fulfilling  his  last 
commandment,  Go  ye  into  all  the  world,  and  preach  the  Gospel 
to  every  creature.  Should  this  feeling,  as  we  can  hardly 
doubt  it  will,  continue  to  pervade  and  possess  the  church,  the 
time  will  surely  come,  it  may  soon  come,  when  every  man  on 
the  face  of  the  whole  earth  will  be  brought  to  make  his  choice, 
to  receive  Jesus  Christ  or  reject  him,  to  take  him  into  his 
bosom  as  his  Siviour  and  Lord,  or  to  cast  him  oft'. 

The  first  result  of  bringing  mankind  to  act  on  this  question 
may  be  some  powerful  agitation.  There  will  be  selfishness, 
pride,  the  dread  of  innovation,  the  force  of  superstition  and  of 
idolatry,  whatever  in  our  world  is  depraved  and  unreasonable, 
to  combat.  Many  will  doubtless  set  themselves  against  the 
Lord  and  against  Him  whom  he  hath  anointed  and  established 
as  king  upon  the  holy  hill  of  Zion.  How  long  and  how 
severe  the  resistance  which  the  crucified  Son  of  God  shall 
meet,  the  Father  hath  kept  unrevealed.  But  this  we  may 
fairly  predict,  that  when  reason  is  against  vain  imaginations  ; 
religion,  against  superstition ;  conscience  conjoined  with  re 
ligion,  against  perversions  of  the  right ;  all  that  is  holy  and 
ennobling,  against  all  that  is  debasing  and  sinful ;  the  issue 
will  be  most  auspicious.  The  elements  of  society  may  be 
shaken  and  convulsed  ;  but  they  will  become  the  subjects  of  a 
new  creation,  full  of  order,  full  of  light,  full  of  glory  ;  the 
Lord  Jesus  will  diffuse  blessedness  and  love  over  the  whole 
earth. 

So  far  our  argument  in  its  essential  principles  grounds  itself. 


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not  on  the  divine  authority  of  the  Gospel,  but  on  its  peculiar 
character  as  a  theological  and  ethical  system.  A.n  unbeliever 
may  assure  us,  both  that  the  evidence  of  its  divine  origin  is 
defective,  and  that  the  whole  system  will  pass  away  like  the 
mythologies  of  Egypt,  of  Greece,  and  of  Rome.  Should  we 
for  a  moment  concede  to  him  the  former  position,  we  might 
still  hold  the  latter  unassailed.  Those  mythologies,  we  might 
say  to  him,  passed  by  reason  of  their  intrinsic  absurdities 
making  them  unfit  for  mind  in  its  higher  progress.  But  be- 
yond Christianity  the  human  mind  cannot  advance.  It  is  a 
religion  which  suits  alike  the  highest  state  of  intellectual  pro- 
gress and  the  lowest.  It  has  in  it  the  powerful  attraction  of 
repeating  to  man  the  language  of  his  secret  consciousness. — 
It  discloses  a  law,  whether  the  truth  or  not,  yet  a  law  of  re- 
demption, which  soothes  our  disquietudes  and  gladdens  our 
hearts.  It  inspires  a  hope  of  which  the  influence  must  be 
immense  and  ennobling,  that  God  will  be  with  us  in  every 
good  work.  It  addresses  equally  the  reason  and  the  affections, 
the  conscience  and  the  heart,  attaching  the  mind  to  it  by 
whatever  is  sound  in  wisdom  and  powerful  in  emotion,  and 
consecrating  all  its  energies  and  influences  to  the  production 
and  growth  of  moral  excellence.  Allow  it  to  be  what  you 
choose  to  deem  it,  a  fable ;  but  then  it  is  a  fable  which  men 
have  believed  and  will  believe,  so  perfectly  does  it  harmonize 
with  the  powers,  the  laws,  the  consciousness  and  the  wants  of 
their  souls.  The  Roman  Philosopher  chose  to  be  wrong  with 
Plato  in  the  belief  of  immortality,  rather  than  right  with  men 
of  meaner  name  in  disbelieving  it.  How  many  will  follow 
Jesus  Christ  in  the  exalting  and  blissful  hope  of  that  eternal 
life  which  he  hath  promised,  rather  than  his  revilers  in  casting 
it  off!  They  will  believe,  if  for  no  other  reason,  because  be- 
lief is  an  unspeakably  happier,  as  it  is  more  natural,  state 
than  the  contrary.  So  far  We  may  go  without  saying  aught 
of  the  Gospel  as  it  is  God's  own  Word  of  Truth  and  Love 
So  soon  as  we  come  to  this  ground,  and  assume  that  Jesus  is 


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indeed  the  manifested  Son  of  God,  we  may  both  presume 
from  his  care  of  his  own  truth,  and  feel  assured  from  his  pro- 
phetic oracles,  that  our  presumption  is  correct,  and  that  our 
highest  hopes  will  be  realized  in  the  conversion  of  the  world 
to  the  obedience  of  his  faith.  His  name  shall  endure  forever ; 
his  name  shall  be  continued  as  long  as  the  sun  ;  and  men  shall 
be  blessed  in  him  :  all  nations  shall  call  him  blessed. 

Our  conclusion,  involving,  as  the  condition  of  its  becoming 
real  in  our  world,  the  vigorous  action  of  Christians,  by  no  means 
allows  an  indolent  waiting  for  the  universal  reign  of  the  Lord 
Jesus.  It  demands,  on  the  contrary,  duties  of  most  solemn 
obligation.     Woe  to  us  if  we  neglect  them  ! 

1 .  In  urging  these  duties,  let  me,  first,  say,  that  we  should 
seek  a  most  intimate  and  thorough  knowledge  of  Christianity, 
what  it  teaches  and  what  it  is.  Let  us  not  be  content  with 
barely  knowing  the  truth  so  as  to  secure  eternal  life  to  our- 
selves ;  but  let  us  continually  proceed  onward  toward  that 
perfection  in  knowledge,  through  which  we  may  be  qualified  to 
explain  and  enforce  it  on  all  over  whom  we  have  influence. 
If  it  is  the  indolence  or  other  sins  of  nominal  Christians  by 
which  the  Gospel  has  been  hitherto  prevented  from  universal 
diffusion  of  itself;  then  it  is  their  action  and  teaching  by  which 
it  is  destined  to  spread  over  all.  But  this  action  and  teaching 
must  flow  from  a  thorough  spiritual  knowledge.  Moreover,  if 
the  efforts  of  the  church  must  be  put  forth  soon,  lest  multitudes 
perish  without  instruction,  it  is  equally  needful  that  they  be 
put  forth  wisely,  lest  many  be  misled  and  deluded  rather  than 
taught  aright.  Hence  it  becomes  every  Christian  to  seek 
accurate  and  enlarged  views  of  the  truth,  a  deep  knowledge 
of  Jesus  Christ,  a  perpetual  growth  in  spiritual  wisdom  and 
understanding.  Let  us  remember  that  as  servants  of  the 
Lord  from  heaven,  consecrated  to  the  ministries  of  his  grace, 
we  owe  it  to  our  Master,  to  his  Church,  and  to  the  world,  to 
acquire  the  most  intimate  knowledge  both  of  Himself  and  of 
his  Truth. 


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S.  Nor  let  this  knowledge  be  dead  and  fruitless.  Let  me 
here,  secondly,  remark,  that  we  must  give  to  Christianity  a 
living  manifestation  of  itself  in  our  own  characters.  Such  is 
the  nature  of  the  Gospel,  such  the  essence  of  Christ's  spirit 
and  words,  as  not  only  to  hold  connexion  with  certain  forms  of 
speech  in  the  doctrinal  announcement,  but  to  appropriate  a 
fixed  expression,  a  manifestation  more  perfect  than  mere  in- 
struction can  present,  in  the  habits  of  daily  conduct.  These 
habits,  the  actings  and  breathings  of  inward  Christian  theology, 
constitute  even  beyond  any  words  its  external  befitting  symbols. 
Nor  are  these  symbols  mere  expressions  of  Christ  formed  in 
the  heart ;  like  all  other  modes  through  which  the  mind  lays 
itself  out  to  the  view,  they  are  the  means  of  awakening  in 
others  a  secret  and  powerful  sympathy.  As,  it  is  well  known, 
the  smile  of  my  friend  lights  up  my  own  countenance,  and 
his  tears,  on  the  other  hand,  touch  my  heart  with  kindred 
emotion  ;  as  always,  in  the  language  of  Leighton,  "there  is 
a  correspondence,  it  is  the  heart  speaks  to  the  heart,  and  the 
understanding  and  memory  the  same,  and  the  tongue  speaks 
but  to  the  ear;"  so,  we  may  subjoin,  not  only  the  words  which 
are  spoken  about  Jesus  Christ,  but  every  word  spoken  about 
every  subject,  and  every  action,  and  the  whole  deportment,  so 
far  as  true  religion  excites  and  imbues  them,  are  not  dead, 
inactive  images  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  but  potent  agencies  through 
which  in  revealing  himself  he  draws  men  unto  him.  Would 
we  then  manifest  a  living  Christianity,  let  us  convert  not  only 
all  our  thoughts,  but  all  our  words,  all  our  actions,  all  our 
manners,  our  whole  deportment,  to  the  very  tones  of  the 
voice  and  the  aspect  of  the  countenance,  into  one  distinct 
expression,  one  quickening  symbol,  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ; 
that  thus  we  may  become,  as  it  were,  integral  portions  of  that 
mighty  system  of  human  agencies,  through  which  he  is  operating 
to  produce  that  glorious  result,  his  own  likeness  and  life  in 
those  whom  he  hath  chosen. 

3.  Allow  me,  brethren,  to  present  a  third  remark  ;    It  be- 


n 

Comes  us  constantly  to  act  on  the  principle  that  the  Lord 
Jesus,  manifesting  himself  in  his  gospel  and  by  means  of  his 
disciples,  is  the  real  agent  in  establishing  his  own  universal 
reign.  In  an  age  like  the  present,  when  so  much  is  done 
through  various  modes  of  religious  beneficence,  we  are  prone 
to  forget  this  truth  in  a  strong,  though  vague  and  unacknowl- 
edged impression,  that  our  skilful  and  energetic  mechanism  is 
to  work  out  the  destined  end,  as  if  through  its  self-inherent 
efficiency.  Oh,  let  us  beware  of  this  unchristian,  this  even 
atheistic  tendency  !  May  we  not  say  with  reverence,  that  God 
is  himself  enforcing  this  exhortation  more  powerfully  than  by 
human  argument  and  language  ?  Who  shall  say  that,  among 
the  unrevealed  designs  of  that  extensive  depression  which  our 
Missionary  Societies  must  now  feel  in  common  with  the  com= 
munity  at  large,  this  is  not  one,  even  the  leading,  I  had 
almost  said  the  compelling,  of  Christians  to  rememherand  ke\ 
that  there  is  a  higher  element  of  power  in  the  church  than 
wealth  or  aught  which  wealth  is  able  to  control?  Permit  me 
further  to  ask,  whether  we  need  not  some  pecuniary  trials  to 
produce  this  feeling;  whether,  as  money  has  been  affirmed  to 
constitute  the  sinews  of  war,  so  likewise  there  has  not  appeared 
a  tendency  to  ascribe  a  kindred  power  to  it  in  the  advance- 
ment of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven ;  whether,  in  a  word,  there 
has  not  existed  an  arrogant  and  unholy  disposition  to  raise  all 
human  agency  from  its  subordinate  position  to  the  higher 
station  of  efficiency  really  belonging  only  to  the  Spirit  of  God 
which  Jesus  Christ  is  exalted  to  bestow.  If  there  be  ground 
for  these  inquiries,  then  it  is  well  that  God  hath  touched  us  in 
the  very  matter  of  our  offence.  May  his  judgments  raise  our 
faith  from  earth  to  heaven  !  Such  a  result  will  do  more,  not 
only  for  our  own  improvement,  but  for  the  progress  of  Christ- 
ianity, than  the  amplest  treasury  and  the  most  splendid 
mechanism  of  outward  means.  Let  us  thoroughly  learn  to 
come  down  from  our  high  thoughts,  and  to  regard  ourselves 
and  our  abilities  as  nothing,  and  to  enthrone  Jesus  Christ  35 
3 


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the  Lord  of  all ;  let  us  believe,  and  in  all  things  act  from  the 
belief,  that  his  is  the  power,  as  his  the  kingdom  and  his  the 
glory  ;  let  us  remember  him  as  the  real  and  mighty  Agent  of 
whom  we  are  but  feeble  ministers  and  servants.  Thus  occupy- 
ing our  own  place  and  assigning  his  to  our  Lord,  thus  making 
ourselves  mere  conductors,  as  it  were,  of  the  holy  influence 
which  flows  but  from  bis  fulness,  we  may  trust  that  be  will  of 
himself  fulfil  even  his  highest  promises :  "It  shall  come  to  pass 
in  the  last  days,  that  the  mountain  of  the  Lord's  house  shall 
be  established  in  the  top  of  the  mountains,  and  shall  be  exalted 
above  the  hills  ;  and  all  nations  shall  flow  unto  it.  And  many 
people  shall  go  and  say,  Come  ye,  and  let  us  go  up  to  the 
mountain  of  the  Lord,  to  the  house  of  the  God  of  Jacob  ;  and 
he  will  teach  us  of  his  ways,  and  we  will  walk  in  his  paths. — 
For  out  of  Zion  shall  go  forth  the  law,  and  the  word  of  the 
Lord  from  Jerusalem.  And  he  shall  judge  among  the  nations, 
and  shall  rebuke  many  people :  and  they  shall  beat  their 
swords  into  plough-shares,  and  their  spears  into  pruning-hooks : 
nation  shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation,  neither  shall  they 
learn  war  any  more."  It  is  the  Lord's  doing  :  his  the  power, 
unto  him  be  the  glory  forever.     Amen. 


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THIRTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 

The  Maine  Missionary  Society  held  its  Thirtieth  Anniversary  in  th« 
Meeting-house  of  the  First  Parish,  North  Yarmouth,  on  Wednesday, 
June  28,  1837;  Rev.  Wm.  Allen,  D.  D.  President  of  the  Society,  in 
the  chair.  The  meeting  was  op?ned  with  reading1  the  Scriptures,  by 
the  President,  singing  the  72d  Psalm,  and  prayer,  by  the  Rev.  R.  S. 
Storrs,  Delegate  to  the  meeting  from  the  American  Home  Missionary 
Society. 

The  Treasurer  prpsented  his  Report,  certified  by  William  Swan, 
and  Wm.  C.  Mitchell,  Esqrs.  Auditors. 

The  Annual  Sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  T.  Stone. 

The  Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  was  read  by  Rev,  Eliphalet 
Gillett,  D.  D.  Corresponding  Secretary. 

On  motion  of  the  Rev.  Sewall  Harding,  of  Waltham,  Mass.  aeo- 
onded  by  Rev.  Richard  C.  Hand,  Agent  of  the  American  Board, 

Resolved,  That  the  Report  now  read,  be  accepted,  and  published  under 
the  direction  of  the  Trustees. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  J.  C.  Brigham,  Secretary  of  the  American  Bible 
Society,  New  York,  seconded  by  Rev.  Isaac  Rogers,  of  Farmington, 

Resolved,  That  the  cause  of  Domestic  Missions  demands  the  unceasing, 
untiring  efforts  of  Christians,  who  are  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  Institutions 
of  the  Gospel. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  Dr.  Storrs,  of  Massachusetts,  seconded  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Tappan,  of  Augusta, 

Resolved,  That  while  we  praise  God  for  past  success,  new  zeal  in  prayei 
to  Him  with  whom  is  the  residue  of  the  Spirit  is  demanded,  that  still  greater 
results  may  be  witnessed. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  James  Carruthers,  Home  Missionary  in  Maine, 
seconded  by  Rev.  Joseph  Lane,  of  Westbrook, 

Resolved,  That,  instead  of  being  discouraged  in  consequence  of  th« 
present  pecuniary  embarrassments,  we  have  reason  to  take  courage,  and 
make  greater  efforts  to  sustain  feeble  churches,  and  supply  destitute  places 
with  the  preaching  of  the  gospel. 

The  several  gentlemen  accompanied  their  motions  with  appropriate 
addresses. 

Officers  of  the  Maine  Missionary  Society,  elected  June  28,  1837 

Rev.  William  Allen,  D.  D.  President. 
Thomas  Adams,  Esq.  Vice  President. 

Rev.  Eliphalet  Gillett,  D.  D.  Hallowell,  Corresponding  and  R*oQT&mg 
Secretary. 

Woodbury  Storer,  Esq.  Portland,  Treasurer. 

Wm.  Swan  and  Wm.  C.  Mitchell,  Esqrs.  Auditors. 

Trustees.  —The  President  ex.  officio,  Rev.  E.  Gillet,  D.  D  ,  David  Thurs- 
ton, Benjamin  Tappan,  J.  W.  Ellingwood,  D.  M.  Mitchell,  Asa  Curnming*, 
.8.  L.  Pomtoy,  Thaddeus  Pomeroy,  W.  Storer,  and  David  Dunlap,  .fcsqs. 

Executive  Committee.— Rev.  Messrs  Gillett,  Thurston,  Tappan,  Elling- 
wood, Cummings  and  Storer. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Society  is  to  be  holden  at  Saco  on  the  fourth 
Wednesday  of  June,  1838-  Rev  Carlton  Hurd  first  preacher,  and  Rev. 
Wm.  T  D wight  substitute. 


REPORT 

pF   THE    TRUSTKF.S    OF    THE    MAINE    MISSIONARY     SOCIETY,    AT    THET& 
TI'IKTIETH  AVM'Al,    MEETING,  IN    NORTH- YARMOUTH,  JUNE  28,  18^7. 

We  meet,  on  this  occasion,  in  circumstance's  of  unwonted  solemnity 
and  interest.  An  inscrutable  providence,  since  the  last  anniversary, 
h  is  removed  a  faithful  am)  beloved  fellow  laborer,  the  late  Corres- 
ponding  Secretary  and  General  Agent  of  this  Society,  Rev.  Samck.Ii 
Johnson.  His  decease  was  on  In e  16th  of  November  last.  Having 
but  lately  entered  upon  his  new  field  i>1  labors,  in  the  second  year  of 
his  operations;  with  an  extended  and  still  extending  prospect  of  useful- 
ness and  influence,  he  was  summoned  to  other  scenes  and  other  services; 
and  we  trust,  to  higher  jays  and  glories.  Accustomed  to  take  a  con- 
spicuous part  in  pn'iVic  assemblies,  his  absence  will  be  felt  in  these  "holy 
convocations."  It  brings  to  mind  the  annunciation  of  the  prophet,  in 
regard  to  Jerusalem  ;  "The  Lord  doth  take  away  the  stay  and  the  staff, 
the  mighty  man  and  the  eloquent  orator."  The  Trustees,  while  they 
record  their  testimonial  of  his  worth,  and  their  undissembled  grief  at  the 
bereavement  of  the  Churches  whose  servant  he  was,  would  submissively 
bow  to  the  orderingsof  that  Being  whose  will  is  law,  in  heaven  and  on 
earth,  and  whose  course  of  providence,  though  often  to  us  shortsighted 
creatures,  enveloped  in  clouds  and  darkness,  yet  is  always  wisdom  and 
righteousness.  He  hath  called  him  away.  The  suddenness  of  his  re- 
moval, in  the  midst  of  life  and  usefulness,  and  in  the  manliness  of  his 
strength,  is  a  monitory  injunction  upon  his  surviving  associates,  to  "work 
while  the  day  lasts,  for  the  night  cometh  when  no  man  can  work." 

Almost  all  the  founders  of  this  Institution  and  its  early  members  and 
patrons,  as  also  some  of  its  active  and  youthful  officers  and  agents, 
now  sleep.  But  the  Institution  itself  lives  on  ;  grows  and  increases 
and  extends  its  operations.  There  is  a  "Repairer  of  breaches."  Instead 
of  the  fathers  are  the  sons. 

From  small  beginnings  and  slender  resources  and  operations  restrict- 
ed to  a  single  section,  the  Society  has,  during  its  30  years  of  tabor, 
been  gradually  increasing  in  its  means,  breaking  forth  on  the  right  hand 
and  on  the  left,  enlarging  the  theatre  of  its  action,  and  sending  forth  a 
healthful  influence  into  all  parts  of  the  State. 

It  has  been  customary  for  the  Trustees,  and  it  is  made  their  duty,  at 
each  successive  Annual  Meeting,  to  make  an  expost.af  their  affairs  , 
embracing  a  list  of  missionaries  employed  by  the  Society  ;  the  time 
and  place  of  their  labors,  with  the  various  results  ;  the  state  of  the  fi- 
nances of  the  Institution,  and  its  future  prospects  and  intended  opera- 
tions. 

Alphabetical  List  of  Missionaries. 

Mr.  Charles  E.  Abbott,  Mt.  Vernon,  Kennebec  Co.  1  month. 

The  missionary  labors  here  are  stated  to  have  been  "very  acceptable, 
and  it  is  hoped  not  without  some  abiding  good  effect." 

Rev.  Weston  B.  Adams,  Danville,  Cumberland  Co.  4  1-2  months. 

A  communication  from  Mr.  Adams,  under  date  of  16th  inst.   states  ; 


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•'Less  than  5  years  ago,  our  Church  consisted  of  15  members  ;  it  has 
now  increased  to  50.  Congregation,  from  40  to  50;  now  about  200.— 
Scholars  in  Sabbath  school  from  30  to  40  ;  now  from  160  to  180.  The 
gospel  has  also  exerted  an  obviously  salutary  effect  upon  the  community 
in  general. 

"The  pecuniary  embarrassments,  which  are  felt  through  the  country, 
are  very  severely  felt  here,  but  our  people  are  sensible  the  Me.  Miss 
Society  must  feel  them  still  more  severely,  unless  a  special  effort  be 
made  for  its  relief;  nnd  I  am  happy  to  state  to  you,  that  I  am  authorized 
to  siy,  that  they  now  assume  the  responsibility  of  my  entire  support, 
from  the  commencement  of  the  current  year.  The  $65  now  due  me 
from  the  Society,  you  are  of  course  at  liberty  to  apply  where  there  is 
greater  need.  May  the  Lord  abundantly  reward  the  Society  fur  its 
bounty  to  us  ;  and  enable  us  ere  long  to  repay  and  much  more  than 
repay  it;  thnt  we  may  through  the  channel  of  the  Society,  convey  the 
rich  blessings  of  the  gospel  to  the  destitute  ;  and  that  as  we  have  been 
watered  ourselves,  we  may  be  permitted  to  water  others  also." 

Rev.   Frederic   Atkins,    Fairfield,  Somerset  Co.  1  1-2  months. 

Mr.  John  VVheelock  Allen,  Pittston,  Kennebec  Co.  1 1-4. 

At  this  place  there  was  some  special  attention  to  religion  before  the 
missionary  labors  commenced,  and  it  has  been  happily  increased  and 
extended.  "6  or  7  have  professed  to  hope  in  Christ,  and  3  joined  to  the 
church."     The  people  in  this  place  paid  the  missionary  for  his  services. 

Rev.  Gilman  Bacheller,  Machias-port,  Washington  Co.   1  month, 

Rev.  John  Raker,  Monson  and  vicinity,  Somerset  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Thomas  P.  Beach,  North  Bridgton  and  Harrison,  Cumberland 
Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Alden  Botnton,  Industry  and  New  Portland,  Somerset  Co.  3 
months. 

Rev.  George  Brown,  Swanville,  Waldo  Co.  3  1-2  months. 

Mr.  Calvin  Butler,  Raymond,  Cumberland  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Noah  Cresey,  Gilead,  Oxford  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Isaac  Carleton,  Lubec  and  Whiting,  Washington  Co.  4 
months. 

Rev.  A.  P.  Chute,  Oxford,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

Mr  Wm.  S.  Coggin,  Scarboro,'2d  parish,  Cumberland  Co.  1  month 

Rev.  James  Carruthers,  Lincoln  and  Penobscot  and  Waldo 
Counties,  12  months. 

Mr.  Carruthers  states  in  his  journal ;  "July  and  August  of  1836,  were 
spent  in  Waldo  County; — September  and  October,  in  Garland,  Dextei 
and  vicinity,  Penobscot  County ; — and  the  remaining  time,  up  to  the 
last  of  June  1837,  at  Bremen,  Bristol  Mills  and  Pemaquid,  in  Bristol, 
Lincoln  County.  We  have  had  no  special  revival,  but  5  have  obtained 
hope,  at  Pemaquid  and  Bristol  Mills,  and  1  of  twelve  years  of  age,  at 
a  protracted  meeting  at  Garland." 

Rev.  Edward  F.  Cutter,  Warren,  Lincoln  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Robert  Crossett,  Dennysville,  Washington  Co.  13-4  months 

Rev.  Wm.  Davenport,  Perry,  Washington  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Davenport  began  his  labors  with  this  people  on  the  8th  of  Sep  ■ 
tember  last,  with  pledged  aid  from  M.  M.  S.  during  one  year.  He  was 
ordained  to  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  Church,  the  19th  of  October.— 
"Prospects  encouraging — 200  pledged  to  the  Temperance  cause,  in  its 
strictest  principles;  and  200  in  the  Sabbath  school." 

Rev.  Nathan  Douglass,  St  Albans  and  Palmyra,  Somerset  Co.  13-4 


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Rev.  Timothy  Davis,  Poxcroft  and  vicinity,  Penobscot  Co.  6  months. 

Rev.  Samuel  S.  Drake,  Blanchard  and  vicinity,  Somerset  Co.  4 
moaths. 

Rev.  George  VV.  Fargo,  Solon,  Comville  and  Phillips,  Somerset 
Co.  3  1-2  months. 

Mr.  Samuel  S.  Fessenden,  East  Thomaston,  Lincoln  Co-  1  1-4 
months. 

Rev.  Ephraim  Fobes,  Weld,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

The  Church  in  Weld  have  given  a  call  to  Mr.  Fobes,  which  he  has 
accepted,  and  the  installation  is  expected  to  take  place  in  the  course  of 
next  month.  His  journal  states  ;  "The  religious  state  of  things  at 
present,  seems  pleasant  and  encouraging.  5  or  6  young  persons,  as 
we  hope,  have  given  their  hearts  to  God.  The  Sabbath  school,  which 
was  suspended  through  the  winter,  has  been  opened,  and  is  now  quite 
full." 

Rev.  David  Gerry,  Albany,  Oxford  Co.  1  1-2  months. 

Mr.  Solomon  Gilbert,  Upper  Still  water,  Penobscot.  Co.  1 1-4  months. 

Rev.  James  Gooch,  Hiram  and  Denmark,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Jacob  C.  Goss,  Woolwich,  Lincoln  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Wm.  C.  Greenleaf,  Andover,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Simeon  Hackett,  Temple,  Kennebec  Co.  2  months. 

Mr.  Seth  Hardy,  Pittston,  Kennebec  Co.  4  1-2  months. 

Mr.  Hardy  has  left  this  field  of  labor,  and  is  supplying  at  Vassalboro, ' 
where  the  Church  has  given  him  a  call  to  take  the  pastoral  charge  of 
them,  which  he  has  accepted. 

Mr.  Israel  Hills,  Lovell,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Hills  has  been  ordained  over  the  Church  and  Society  in  Lovell, 
during  the  time  of  his  mission. 

Rev.    George  C.   Hyde,  Readfield,  Kennebec  Co.  10  months. 

Mr. Horatio  Flsley,   Cherryfield,  Washington  Co.  1  1-4  months. 

Rev.  Henry  C.  Jewett,  Winslow,  Kennebec  Co.  3  months. 

In  this  place  there  has  been  for  some  months  a  revival  of  the  work  of 
God.  The  journal  of  Mr.  Jewett  states  ;  "The  Holy  Spirit  has  caused 
one  and  another  to  make  the  interesting  enquiry,  what  shall  we  do  to  be 
saved  ?  and  has  put  a  new  song  into  the  mouth  of  numbers  even  praise 
to  our  God.  Several  have  offered  themselves  to  our  communion,  who,  it 
is  expected,  will  be  admitted  into  the  Church,  on  the  first  Sabbath  in  July. 
The  work  has  been  very  silent  and  progressive.  Among  the  means 
employed  and  blessed,  we  reckon  the  preaching  of  the  gospel ;  the 
occasional  giving  away  of  religious  Tracts  ;  neighborhood  meetings  ; 
and  religious  conversation,  especially  of  those  who  had,  as  they  hoped, 
just  given  themselves  to  Christ ;  as  also  Sabbath  school  and  Bible  Class 
instruction,  by  which  good  has  been  effected." 

Rev.  Wm.  V.  Jordan,  Dixfield,  Oxford  Co.  2  3-4  months. 

Mr.  Jordan  has  been  ordained  to  the  pastoral  care  of  the  church,  during 
his  mission. 

Rev.  Thomas  Jameson,  Scarboro',  1st  Church,  Cumberland  Co. — I 
1-4  months. 

in  a  communication,  under  date  of  16th  inst.  Mr.  Jameson  writes  ;— 
"In  view  of  the  numerous,  pressing  and  increasing  demands  upon  your 
society,  the  church  and  people  here  have  felt  that  they  ought  not  to  ask 
for  further  aid.  It  required  a  vigorous  effort,  to  raise  sufficient  to  sus- 
tain the  gospel  of  themselves.  They  made  that  effort  and  succeeded 
And  I  have  no  doubt  they  are  the  happier  for  it     As  an  evidence  of 


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this,  all  our  meetings  are  better  attended.  Our  contributions  at  ih& 
monthly  concert  have  been  nearly  doubled  ;  and  I  should  not  be  eur 
prised,  if  our  contribution  to  the  Missionary  Society,  next  Sabbath,, 
should  be  much  larger  than  usual.  Thus  it  appears,  that  a  helping 
hand  has  not  been  stretched  out  to  this  little  church,  in  vain.  Under 
the  fostering  care  of  the  Missionary  Society,  during  the  6  years  past,  it 
has  risen  from  40  to  J02  members.  The  congregation  on  the  Sabbath 
has  more  than  doubled  in  numbers.  And  the  people,  instead  of  furnish- 
ing one  halfthe  means  of  supporting  the  gospel,  as  at  first,  they  now 
furnish  the  whole.  And  we  cannot  doubt,  that  many  souls  in  this 
place,  will  have  reason  to  bless  God,  in  time  and  through  eternity,  for 
the  charitable  aid  thus  afforded  them." 

Rev.  Elijah  Kellogg,  Washington  Co.  2  months. 

Rev.  Ivory  Kimball,  Limington,  York  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Thomas  N.  Lord,  Litchfield,  Kennebec  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Lord  has  closed  his  labors  at  this  place,  and  accepted  a  call  to 
settle  at  Topsham.      Duriug-~faia  labura   at  Litchfield,  there   was   some 

special  attention  to  religion,  and  7  have  been  added  to  the  church  by 
profession. 

Rev.  Levi  Loring,  Anson  and  Athens,  Somerset  Co.  8  months. 

Rev.  Joseph  Loring,  Foxcroft,  Penobscot  Co.  1  1-4  months. 

Rev.  Joseph  A.  E.  Long,  Lyman,  York  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Daniel  Libby,  Hebron  and  W.  Minot,  Oxford  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Joseph  Lane,  Westbrook,  1st  church,  Cumberland  Co.  1  3  4. 

Mr.  Lane  has  taken  the  pastoral  charge  of  this  church  ;  and  though 
it  is  now  under  the  patronage  of  this  Society,  it  is  hoped,  it  will  soon 
acquire  sufficient  strength  to  sustain  the  ordinances  of  religious  worship. 

Rev.  Eaton   Mason,  Sweden,  Oxford  Co.  3  1-2  months. 

Rev.  Silas  M'Keen,  Belfast,  Waldo  Co.  4  months. 

This  establishment  is  gaining  strength;  the  church  increasing  in 
numbers  and  influence.  A  communication  from  the  missionary,  under 
date  ofl3th  inst.  states ;  "During  the  year,  ending  with  the  present 
month,  the  church  under  my  pastoral  care,  through  the  sovereign  grace 
of  our  God,  has  been  increased  by  the  addition  of  29  members;  all  ex- 
cept 2  by  profession.  The  most  of  these  were  the  fruits  of  the  revival 
which  we  experienced,  a  year  ago  last  May  ;  but  they  were  not  gath- 
ered into  the  church,  until  they  had  sufficient  time  to  examine  them- 
selves, and  to  determine  with  deliberation  what  course  to  pursue.  This 
addition,  in  regard  to  character  and  influence,  is  a  very  desirable  one. 
In  consequence  of  it,  the  church  has  been  materially  strengthened,  and 
many  families  greatly  blessed.  In  a  considerable  number,  the  voice  of 
prayer  and  praise  may  now  be  heard,  where,  all  before,  in  respect  to 
family  devotion,  was  silent  and  cold  as  the  abodes  of  the  dead.  And 
these  praying  parents,  like  the  primitive  believers,  brought  their  house  • 
holds  and  consecrated  them  to  the  Lord,  engaging  to  train  them  up 
for  his  blessed  service. — Our  Sabbath  schools,  numbering  at  least  200 
members,  are  in  a  flourishing  state.  This  church  and  society  have,  dur- 
ing the  year,  contributed  to  various  religious  objects  abroad,  an  amount 
just  about  equivalent  to  all  they  have  received  in  charities  to  sustain 
the  gospel  among  themselves." 

Rev.  William  May,  Strong,  Somerset  Co.  1  1-2  months. 
Rev.  Josiah  G.Merrill,  Cape  Elizabeth, Cumberland  Co.  4  months 
Rev.  Joseph  R.  Monsell,  Lincoln  and  vicinity,  Penobscot  Co.  41-2 
.months. 


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Rev.  Robert  Page,  Levant,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

The  journal  of  Mr.  Page  states;  "During  the  year,  I  have  per- 
formed fourteen  weeks'  labor,  in  the  employ  of  the  Maine  Missionary 
Society,  in  this  town.  I  have  preached  135  times;  attended  14  church 
meetings;  34  Bible  Class  meetings  ;  and  47  prayer  meetings.  On  an 
average  I  have  conducted  between  4  and  5  meetings  a  week.  Added 
to  these,  the  meetings  which  I  have  attended, conducted  by  others,  and 
at  which  I  have  tsken  part,  make  the  number  between  5  and  6  a  week. 
There  have  been  added  to  the  church,  within  this  time,  9  members." 
These  9  members,  with  the  26  added  the  last  year,  make  the  church 
more  than  4  limes  as  large  as  it  was  two  years  ago,  when  Mr.  Pa^e 
was  installed  to  the  pastoral  charge  of  it.  Efforts  in  this  place,  have 
been  wonderfully  succeeded  by  the  blessing  of  God  ;  and  few  church- 
es under  the  patronage  of  the  Society,  give  better  promise  of  ulti= 
mately  sustaining  the  ordinances  of  religion,  and  contributing  to  aid 
the  destitute  around  them. 

Rev.  Clement  Pakkkk,  York,  2d  uliurcli,  York  Co.  2  1-2  months. 

Rev.  Josiah  Peet,  Norridgewock,  Somerset  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Freeman  Parker,  Lincoln  Co.  2  months. 

Rev.  Cyril  Pearl,  Orrington,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Pearl,  a  few  months  after  his  appointment,  accepted  an  agency 
in  the  Am.  Tract  Society,  and  was  dismissed  from  his  pastoral  charge. 
The  church  is  now  destitute. 

Rev.  Clark  Perry,  Standish,  Cumberland  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Perry  has  been  installed  to  the  pastoral  care  of  this  church,  with 
prospect  of  usefulness. 

Rev.  Hf.nrv  Richardson,   Brownfield,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Richardson  has  been  dismissed  from  his  pastoral  charge  of  this 
church  during  the  year. 

Rev.  John    Sawyer,  Corinna,  Penobscot  Co.  1  month. 

Rpv.  Hermon  Stinson,  Winslow,  Kennebec  Co.  2  months. 

"There  has  been  an  increasing  interest  in  our  meetings,  during  the 
year;  and  since  the  commencement  of  the  spring,  a  more  general  at* 
tention  to  religion.  Six  have  been  received  into  the  Church  by  profes- 
sion." 

Rev.  Nathan  W.  Sheldon,  Rumford,  Oxford  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Oren  Sikes,  Mercer,  Somerset  County,  3  months. 

Rev.  David  P.  Smith,  Newfield,  York  Co.  2  1-2  months. 

Rev.  M.  P.  Stickney, Eastport,  Washington  Co.  3  1-2  months, 

Mr.  Stickney  has  been  ordained  to  the  pastoral  care  of  this  Church, 
daring  his  mission. 

Rev.  Joseph  Searle,  Westbrook,  2d  Church,  Cumberland  Co.  4 
months. 

The  pastoral  relation  between  Mr.  Searle  and  this  church  has  beep 
dissolved,  in  the  course  of  the  last  year. 

Rev.  Joseph  B.  Stevens,  Falmouth,  2d  church,  Cumberland  Co.  3 
J-2  months. 

Rev.  Charles  Soule,  Norway,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Soule  has  been  installed  over  this  church,  during  his  mission, 

Mr.  Aurelids  S.  Swift,  Garland,  Exeter  and  Dexter,  Penobscot 
Co,  1  1-4  months. 

Rev.  Jotham  Sewall,  County  of  Washington,  6  months. 

The  Washington  County  Conference  pay  one  half  the  expenses  of 
the  mission.     Mr.  Sewall,  in  former  years,  has  often  visited  this  region 


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as  a  missionary,  and  hag  assisted  in  organizing  several  of  their  churches. 
His  destination  now  was  among  the  waste  places.     His  journal  states i ; 
♦I   have  assisted  in  gathering  two  churches;  on.:  at  Township  No  24. 
(on  the  15th  of  September  last,)  about  10  mile.,  northerly  from  Machias. 
Tins  church  consisted  <>»  11  members ; 3  by  profession  and8hv  letter; 
all  head*  of  families.     The  other  was  gathered  on  the  7th  of  December 
last   at  Whitney  ville,  not  far  from    Machia*,on   the  west  river.      I  his 
Church  consist.-',]  ,,ff>  members;  6   others  expecting  soon  to  j  'in  with 
them  ;  all  professors  of  religion  before.     I  have  administered  the  Lord  a 
Supper  7  limes  ;  a  little  more  than  once  a  month.  I  have  baotiz-d  o  adults, 
an.l  admitted  them  to  church  fellowship.  I  Iv.ve  also  ba-ntized  34<-hiluren. 
R.-v.  DimelSewau,  Chesterville  and  Frfyette,  Ken.  Co.  3  months. 
Mr.  Sewall,  during  his  mission,  has  been  ordamed  to  the  pastoral  care 
of  these  two  feeble  churches,  under  the  patronage  of  this  Society.     He 
is  to  preach  in  these  places  alternately.     There  is  great  union  and  har- 
mony, and  he  has  entered  upon  his  labors  under  fav«  rable  auspices. 
Rrv.  Seth  Swektsfb,  Gardiner,  Kennebec  Co,  7  months. 
"This  churcli  was  organized  in  July  1835,  consisting  of  eleven  mem- 
bers.    2  others  were  soon  added  by  letter.      During  the  past  year,   16 
have  been  added,  six  by  profession  and  ten  by  letter.     In  November  last, 
a  neat  and  convenient  house  of  worship  was  finished   and  dedicated    to 
God,  and  Mr.  Sweetser  ordained  to  the  pastoral  care  of  the  church  and 
society.     God  has  blessed  us  in  some  measure  with  the  converting   in- 
fluence's of  his  Spirit.     During  the  winter  past,  there  has  been   an   unu- 
sual degree  of  seriousness,  and  some  very  encouraging  cases  ol  hopetul 
conversion  to  God."  ' 

Rev.  M.  VV.  Sirickland,  Mount  Desert,  Hancock  Co.  3  1-4  montns. 
Rev".  Sewall  Ten.ney,  Ellsworth,  Hancock  Co.  2  3-4  months. 
A  communication  from  Mr.  Tenney,  under  date  of  11th  of  Nov, 
states  ;  "This  completes  one  year  since  1  have  been  settled  in  this  place. 
14  have  been  added  to  the  church,  during  that  time.  We  hope  also, 
in  other  respects,  we  are  gaining  some  strength.  Our  meetings  on  the 
Sabbath,  and  our  Sabbath  school,  are  well  attended;  as  also,  meetings 
during  the  week.  After  this  year,  we  have  concluded  to  ask  no  aid  ot 
your  Society,  and  of  Christian  brethren,  except  their  prayns ;  and  hope 
that  in  a  short  time  we  shall  be  able  to  more  than  repay  their  pecuniary 
kindness." 

Rev.  Samuel  Talbot,  Wilton,  Kennebec  Co.  3  months. 
Mr.  George  F.  Tewksbury,  Durham,  Cumberland  Co.  1  1-4  months. 
Rev.  J.  Thompson,  Pembroke  and  Cooper,  Washington  Co.  3  months. 
"6  have  been  added  to  the  church  in  Pembroke,  during  the  mission. 
Mr.  Sidney  Turner,  Albany,  Oxford  Co.  1  1-4  months. 
Rev.  David  Turner,  New  Vineyard,  Somerset  Co.  1  1-2  months. 
Rev.  John  Turner,  Foxcroft  and  Sebec,  Penobscot  Co,  8  months. 
Rev.  Josiaii  Tucker,  Madison  and  Bingham,  Somerset  Co.  3  monihs. 
Mr.    Tucker  has   been  dismissed  from  Madison,  and   has  taken  the 
pastoral  charge  of  the  church  in   Bingham,  during  his  mission.      This 
church,  though  embodied  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,    has   never  before 
had  a  pastorfand  of  course  was  in  a  low  and  languishing  state.     An  ex- 
tract from  the  journal  of  the  missionary  will  shew  their  efforts,  and  their 
present  condition.     "Notwithstanding  the  declension  which  prevailed, 
still  a  few  habitually  maintained  "society  meetings,"  and  in  these  they 
persevered  ;  and  the  promised  presence  of  Jesus,  to  two  or  three  as- 
sembled in  his  name,  -was  realized 
4 


26 

On  the  first  week  of  November  last,  a  protracted  meeting-  was  appoint 
ed.  It  was  sustained,  on  the  first  day  by  the  church,  as  no  ministers 
were  present.  On  the  second  day  of  the  meeting,  one  or  two  ministers 
were  present.  But  it  was  soon  seen  that  the  Lord  was  with  us  of  a 
truth  ;  rendering  it  a  season  of  deep  interest  to  his  people.  When  the 
meeting-  closed,  it  was  seen  that  one  and  another  had  obtained  hope  ol 
acceptance  with  God.  And  thus  gradually,  silently,  powerfully,  hns  the 
work  progressed  for  full  three  months,  bringing  into  the  fold  of  Christ 
not  far  from  30  souls.  13  have  been  admitted  into  the  church,  and  3 
stand  propounded  for  admission,  at  the  next  communion.  Now,  if  I 
have  been  instrumental  of  good  to  this  people,  it  is  through  the  aid  of 
the  Maine  Missionary  Society  ;  and  if  I  still  continue  with  them,  it  must 
be  in  part  by  the  same  benevolent  aid.  And  it  is  hoped,  that  the  So- 
ciety may  have  as  much  ability,  as  it  is  known  to  have  disposition,  to 
afford  such  assistance,  not  only  here  but  elsewhere,  through  the  moral 
wilderness  of  Maine." 

Rev.  Joseph  Underwood,  Farmington  Falls,  Kennebec  Co.  3  months 

Mr.  Underwood  has  the  pastoral  care  of  the  church  in  New  Sharon, 
and  has  been  sustained  by  them  three  quarters  of  the  time.  A  letter 
from  that  church  states  ;  "We  have  agreed  to  support  our  pastor,  ail  the 
time  for  six  months  to  come,  without  the  aid  of  the  M.  M.  Society,  and 
intend  to  longer,  if  we  can. 

Rev.  John  A.  Vinton,  Penobscot  Co.  1  month. 

Mr.  E.  Walker,  Sebago,  Cumberland  Co.  1  1-4  months.  Want  of 
health  prevented  Mr.  Walker  from  fulfilling  his  mission,  except  in  part. 

Rev.  Calvin  White,  Gray,  Cumberland  Co.  3  months.  Mr.  White 
has  been  dismissed  from  the  church  at  Gray,  and  they  are  now  destitute. 

Rev.  John  N.  Whipple,  Dixmont,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Whipple  has  been  dismissed  from  his  pastoral  charge  at  Dixmont, 
and  has  removed  from  the  State. 

Mr.  Luther  Wisv.all,  Jackson  and  Brooks,  Waldo  Co.  1  3  4  months. 

The  church  in  these  two  towns  has  given  Mr.  Wiswall  an  invitation 
to  become  their  pastor,  which  he  has  acceptpd. 

Rev,  fsAAC  E.  Wilkins,  Albion,  Kennebec  Co.  3  months. 
Amount  of  Labor  and  Results. 

There  have  been  in  the  employment  ofthe  Society,  during  the  year 
past,  90  missionaries,  some  for  a  longer  and  others  for  a  shorter  period  ; 
the  sum  of  whose  labors  is  25  years.  They  have  supplied/for  a  portion 
of  the  time,  about  150  places.  15  of  the  missionaries  have  taken  the 
pastoral  charge  of  churches,  during  the  time  of  their  labors  ;  and  all 
these,  except  2,  are  in  feeble  establishments  which  are  under  the  pat- 
ronage of  this  Society.  5  ofthe  missionaries  are  now  under  a  call,  and 
two  of  them  are  in  churches  where  the  gospel  is  supported  without  the 
aid  of  charity.  The  goings  of  God  have  not  been  so  manifest  in  the 
churches;  the  success,  under  the  labors  that  have  been  furnished,  not 
so  marked,  as  in  some  years  that  are  past ;  and  yet,  in  several  places, 
there  are  very  cheering  results.  About  250  hopeful  converts  are  re- 
ported, a  little  more  than  half  of  whom  have  been  admitted  to  the 
churches.  Sabbath  school  and  Bible  class  instruction  have  been  attend- 
ed to  with  unabating  interest;  and  efforts  made  in  the  Temperance 
cause,  with  various  success,  in  all  places  where  there  are  missionary 
labors.  Looking  at  the  order  of  the  churches,  their  union  and  harmony* 
and  in  some  instances,  their  increase  in  numbers  and  strength,  we  have 
reason  to  acknowledge  with  gratitude  the  smiles  of  Heaven,  the  tokens 


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of  divine  favor,  upon  labors  among  the  feeble  and  destitute  ,  and  to  re- 
cord with  encouragement  and  hope  ;  "Hitherto  hath  the  Lord  helped  us1 . 
State  of  the  Treasury. 
This  is  the  darkest  feature  of  the  picture.  But  it  is  hoped  that  the 
charities  of  this  meeting  will  throw  some  cheering  rays  of  light  upon  the 
subject.  At  the  auditing  of  the  accounts,  the  last  anniversary,  there  was 
the  sum  of  $733  77  1-2  in  the  treasury.  The  income  of  the  present 
year,  including  that  balance,  and  $2,000  hired  in  January  last,  amounts 
to  $11172  40.— The  expenditures  of  the  year,  including  the  payment 
of  the  82,000  hired,  and  $200  to  be  vested  in  a  permanent  fund,  is 
$11038  89;  leaving  a  balance  in  the  treasury,  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Society  of  $133  of.— And  there  are  now  due  to  missionaries,  for  labors 
up  to  this  time,  about  $4,000.  If  what  is  sent  in  at  this  meeting,  and 
what  is  contributed  on  this  occasion,  should  meet  this  deficit,  it  would 
be  a  marked  and  peculiar  effort  in  favor  of  this  Institution,  and  a  call  for 
gratitude  to  charitable  donors,  and  still  more  for  devout  thanksgivings 
to  that  God  who  has  given  them  the  means  and  the  disposition  to  carry 
forward  his  designs  of  mercy. 

Future  Operations  and  Prospects. 
As  to  the  extent  of  their  future  operations,  the  Trustees  must  be 
governed  by  the  means  furnished  them  by  the  friends  of  missions.  They 
are  only  almoners  of  the  Christian  public,  and  can  bestow  no  more  than 
they  receive.  Thev  would  willingly  labor  in  this  cause,  would  rejoice 
to  be  able  to  furnish  all  needed  help  to  every  feeble  church,  and  to 
every  waste  place,  throughout  our  extended  commonwealth.  And  the 
prospect  of  success,  in  efforts  of  this  kind,  was  never  more  promising. 
The  fields  were  never  more  white  to  the  harvest.  And  the  calls  for  aid, 
never  more  loud  and  pressing.  With  sufficient  means,  under  the  bless- 
ing of  heaven,  all  the  feeble  might  be  strengthened,  Zion  enlarged  and 
refreshed,  and  the  voice  of  gladness  be  heard,  throughout  all  our  hills 
and  valleys  and  forests.  The  grateful  exclamation  would  be  reiterated  ; 
"How  beautiful,  upon  the  mountains,  are  the  feet  of  him  that  bnngeth 
good  tidincrs.that  publisheth  peace,  that  bringeth  good  tidings  of  good, 
that  publisheth  salvation  ;  that  saith  unto  Zion,  thy  God  reigneth. 

The  Trustees  cannot  persuade  themselves  to  conclude  this  Report, 
without  making  an  earnest  appeal  to  all  the  friends  of  the  Redeemer,  to 
contribute  thefr  aid  to  this  cause,  by  their  efforts  and  chanties  and 
prayers.  They  would  appeal  to  the  rich,  to  cast  in  of  their  abundance 
into  the  treasury  of  the  Lord,  and  be  rich  in  good  works;— to  the  poor, 
that  they  would  cast  in  of  their  penury,  though  not  in  princely,  yet  in 
no  less  acceptable  gifts;"  it  is  accepted  according  to  that  a  man  hath, 
and  not  according  to  that  he  hath  not ;"— and  to  benevolent  females 
also,  from  whom  a  great  portion  of  their  resources,  in  all  time  past,  has 
been  received,  that  as  the  gospel  has  given  them  an  elevation  and  influ- 
ence, they  would  shew  their  attachment  to  it  by  their  continued  chari- 
ties, and  "not  be  weary  in  well  doing."  But  especially  would  they,  in 
humble  confidence  and  with  fervent  prayer,  commit  their  cause  to  the 
great  Head  of  the  Church,  who  has  commanded,  "Preach  the  gospel  to 
every  creature  ;"  who  has  given  assurance  that  this  gospel  sha'l  have  a 
univsrsa!  spread  and  an  unshaken  establishment  in  all  the  earth  ;  and 
who,  in  his  own  word,  has  recorded  its  triumph  as  though  already 
achieved;  "The  kingdoms  of  this  world  are  become  the  kingdoms  of 
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RECEIPTS. 


The  following  sums  were  received  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  Maine  Missionary 
Society,  from  July  1, 1830,  to  July  1.  1837.— N.  B.  The  half  cents  cred- 
ited on  the  Treasury  Book,  are  omitted  in  the  following  list. 


Augusta. 
A.  Rpdinctnn,  Jr.  part  of  an  1836. 
$1  00.  do  1837,  $2  00,  Daniel  Wil- 
liams to  constitute  his  wife  Mrs.  Han 
nah  Williams  a  L.  M.  20  CO,  Stephen 
Deeringto  constitute  himself  a  L.  M. 
20  00,  Rev.  B.  Tappan  to  constitute 
Benj.  T.  Rogers  of  Providence  a  L 
M  20  00.  James  L.  Child  toward  the 
L.  M.  of  five  children,  10  00,  Mrs.  R 
Tappan  to  const  Anna  W.  Tappan  in 
part  a  L.  M.  10  00,  Society  of  Younjr 
Ladies  to  const  Miss  Helen  Williams 
a  L.  M.  20  00,  Thomas  Little,  1 830. 
E.  Crai<re,  Levi  Page,  Jr.,  John 
Means,  f.  \V.  Smith,  Jonas  G  HnJ- 
comh,  Larkm  M.  Leland,  Daniel  C 
Stanwood,  Joseph  E.  I.add,  Mark  Na- 
s-m,  John  T.  Gilpatrick,  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Fuller,  Miss  Hannah  Tappan  an  1837, 
each  2  00,  Mrs.  William  Wheeler  in 
part,  I  00,  Other  Ladies  donations. 
41  18,  Church  in  South  Parish  includ 
ing  half  collections  at  Monthly  Con- 
certs for  6  months,  100  00,  ("ont  in 
Rev.  Mr.Tappan's  soc.34  82,  Isachar 
Snell  donation,  5  00,  A  Friend  do  5 
00,  John  Potter  do  2  00,  E.  S.  Tap- 
pan,  by  hand  ot  Rev.  Mr.  Tappan,  2  00, 
William  Caldwell,  2  00,  Rev.  John  H 
lnsrraham,  by  Rev.  D.  M.  Mitchell. 
1  00,  Gen.  Henry  Sewall,  5  00,  Rev 
J.  Sewall,  Jr.  in  part  of  sub2  00.  North 
Parish  Female  Miss.  Soc.  8  75,  For 
Bupplyofdesk  by  Rev.  Dr.  Gillett, 
hand  of  Dea.  Church,  by  Rev.  Dr 
Gillett,  20  00,  Thomas  W.  Smith,  an 
1836,  2  00,  North  Parish  for  Rev.  Dr. 
Gillett's  supply  of  desk  50  00,  Mrs 
John  H  lngraham  through  the  Soc. 
for  Mutual  Improvement,  by  Rev. 
Thomas  Adams,  2  00,  Mrs.  Asa  Red- 
ington,  Jr  2  50,  James  L.  Child  sub. 


to  constitute  himself  and  his  wife  Jane 
H.  Child  life  members,  and  in  part  to 
constitute  Daniel  C  Child,  Ann  E. 
Child,  Jjmes  L.  Child,  Grenville  H. 
Child  arvJ  Rebecca  L.  Child  his  chil- 
dren life  members  50  00,  collected  by 
ate  Rev.  S.  Johnson  — South  Parish 
monthly  concert,  by  Rev.  E.  Gillett, 
37  04. 

Jllna. 

Cont  in   Rev.  Mr.    Merrill's  Soc. 

13  10,  Stephen  Coker  An  1837,  2  00, 

Miss  Laura    A.  Stebbins,  1837,  2  00, 

Kev.  Mr.  Merrill's  don.  2  00,  children 

1  03,  Paul  Pearson  in  part  to  const 
himself  a  L.  M.  10  00,  Dea.  Jeremiah. 
Pearson  in  part  to  const  himself  a  L. 
M  10  00.  MissMarv  Ann  Nelson,  An 
1837,200,  Joseph 'Decker,  An.  1837, 

2  00,  Availsof  Ear  Knob  to  be  added 
to  cont  in  Conj.  So.  00  12,  Stephen 
Coker,  nn.  1836,  by  Miss  Mary  Ana 
Nelson,  2  00,  Stephen  Coker.  collect 
ed  by  late  Rev.  S.  Johnson,  2  00,  Dan- 
el  Carleton,  Jr.  by  Rev.  E.  Merrill,  2 

25. 

Mbion. 
Cont  in  Cong.  soc.  2  80. 

Anson. 
Cont  in  Cong.  soc.  5  30,  Subscribed 
by  Individuals,  40  00,  Rev.  Levi  Lor- 
ing,  sub.  5  00,  Sub.  by  people  in  An- 
son, by  Rev.  L.  Loring,  86  50. 
Athens 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  2  00,  Subscribed 
by    Individuals,  45  00,    subscriptions 
by  people  in  Athens  by  Rev.  L.  Lor 
ing,  83  00. 

Alfred. 
Female  Miss  soc.  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann 
Goodenow.Tr  22  00,  to  const  her  a  L. 
M.  Miss  Mary  Ann   Hall,  don.  1  00. 
Cont  in  Ray.  Mr,  Fisk's  soc    6  00 


30 


Albany. 

Aaron  Cummings  an.  1835.  Si  00, 
Mrs.  Aaron  Cummings  an.  1835,  by 
hand  of  Rev.  D.  Gerry,  2  00,  Aaron 
Cummings  an.  1836  &  7,  4  00,  Eph- 
raim  Flint  an.  1837,  2  00,  Cont  in 
Cong.  soc.  by  Mr.  Sidney  Turner,  9 
37. 

Brunswick. 

James  Green  2  00,  Jno.  McKeen 
dona  5  00.  N.  Springer,  dona  5  00. 
Mrs.  Shaw.  2  00,  James  Nelson,  50 
cts.,  A  Friend,  50  cts.,  Mrs.  S.  J 
Allen,  3  00,  E.  L.  Allen,  E.  F.  Allen. 
C.  Eaton,  each  1  00,  G.  F.  Richard 
son,  40  00,  A  Friend,  L.  Pearee,  each 

1  00,  David  Dunlap,  50  00,  William 
Smyth  by  Rev.  G.  E.  Adams.  5  00 
Individuals,  2  50,  Joseph  McKVen. 
10  00,  A.  S.  Packard,  3  00,  W.  H. 
Morse,  5  00,  S.  P.  Newman,  200,  Js. 
Nelson,  50  cts,  Mrs.  Nelson,  «50  cts. 
Mrs.  Geo.  Skolfield,  2  00,  Hannah 
Fitz  bv  Rev.  Geo.  E.  Adams,  1  00, 
Rev.  Dr.  Allen,  50  00,  Mrs.  David 
Dunlap  by  Rev.  G.  E  Adams,  10  00, 
Isaac  Lincoln,  40  00,  VVm.  Baker,  50 
cts.,  Rev.  G.  E.  Adams,  3  00,  Mrs 
Sarah  A.  Adams,  20  00,  Children,  ] 
62,  Benj.  Furbush,  2  00,  Egbert  Bowe 
50  cts,  Jona.  Page  an.  1837,  Mrs 
Page,  each  2  00,  Prof.  Cleav.'land,  5 
00,  Mrs.  Harriet  Weld,  I.  F.  Tappan, 
each  1  00,  Miss  Eliza  Chapman  an. 
1837,  2  00,  S.  Howe,  Phebe  Jacobs, 
each  1  00,  Moses  Woodman,  5  00. 
Ann  Jones,  1  00.  D.  G  Folsom,  2  00. 
Individuals,  9  37  by  Rev.  Geo.  E. 
Adams,  David  Dunlap  donation  50 
00. 

Biddeford. 
Two  Ladies  in  Biddeford  14  00. 
Rev.  S.  Merrill  sub.  2  00,  Contributed 
in  first  Church  by  Dr.  Gillet,  6  50, 
From  a  Female  by  Rev.  Stephen  Mer 
rill,  50  cts.,  Samuel  Merrill  an.  1836, 

2  00,  Mrs.  Charles  Dummer,  3  00, 
Miss  Mary  Cleaves,  5  00  by  Rev.  E. 
Gillet. 

Bucksport. 

From  Subscribers,  9  00,  Cont.  in 
Cong,  ch  &  soc.,  30  50,  Noah  Spar- 
hawk  an.  1837,  200,  Female  Home 
Miss.  Asso.  Miss.  R.  T.  Shurburne 
Treasurer,  20  00,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Blood. 
Bath. 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Ellingwood's  soc 
37  85,  Arami  R.  Mitchell  in  part  to 
constitute  his  wife  Nancy  T.  Mitchell 


a  L.  M.  10  00,  David  C.  Magoua  bal- 
lance  to  constitute  himself  a  L.  M.  10 
00,  Chas.  Clapp,  Jr.  in  part  to  con 
stitute  himself  a  L.  M.  5  00,  William 
Richardson,  Jonathan  Hyde,  John 
Masters,  David  Sewall,  Eben'r  Ar- 
nold, Henry  Hyde,  TilestonCushing, 
Freeman  Clark,  Hartly  Gove,  William 
Donnel,  Richard  Nutter,  Thos.  A^ry, 
Daniel  Larrabee,  William  B.  Truf'ant, 
Gilbert  Trufant,  John  Stockbridge, 
each  an.  1837,  2  00,  Chas  Sewall  for 
1836  &  7,  4  00,  Thomas  Harward  an. 
1837,  2  00,  James  F.  Trott  ent.  Sam'l 
G.  Stinson,  ent  each  I  00,  by  hand  of 
J.  W.  Ellingwood,  Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr. 
Palmer's  soc  25  39,  Green  Richard- 
son, Levi  Houghton,  William  Led- 
yard,  Gershom  Hyde,  each  an.  1837 
2  00.  William  M.  Rogers,  Otis  Kim- 
ball, John  Bovey,    H.  B.  Webb,    Asa 

B.  Robinson  each  ent.  1  CO,  William 
Richardson  sub.  50  00,  David  C.  Ma- 
2oun  to  constitute    his    wife    Hannah 

C.  Magoun  a  L.  M.  20  00,  William 
Richardson  don.  50  00,  Female  Cent 
soc.  Mrs  Ellinofwood  Tr.  semi-annual 
don.  12  00,  Re~v.  J.  W.  Ellingwood 
lo  constitute  Mrs.  Mary  Sprague, 
widow  of  late  Peleg  Sprague, a  L.  M. 
20  00,  Female  Benevolent  soc.  Miss 
Lucy  Lincoln,  Tr.  22  00,  Female 
Cent  soc.  a  semi-annual  payment  Mrs 
Ellinawood,Tr.  24  00,  Female  Miss. 
soc.  Mrs.  Sarah  Hyde  Tr.  to  consti- 
tute Rev.  Wm.  L.  Mather  a  L.  M.  20 
00. 

Bristol. 

Cont  in  Conor,  soc.  8  50,  William 
Chamberlain,  Thomas  Chamberlain, 
Tho's  Woodward  each  an.  1837,  2  00, 
James  G.  Huston,  1835  6  &  7,  6  00, 
Miss  Jane  Clark  1  00  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Kendrick,  Wm.  Chamberlain,  Th. 
fi.  Chamberlain  each  an.  1835,  2  00, 
Cont.  Cong.  soc.  16  94  by  Rev.  E. 
Gillet. 

Br  id  g  ton. 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Pages'  society  9 
25. 

Bethel. 

Timothy  Carter  in  part  to  consti- 
tute himself  a  L.  M.  4  00,  Cont.  in 
Rev.  Mr.  Frost's  soc.  8  75,  Female 
Cent  soc.  Mrs.  l'\  Burbank  Tr.  to 
complete  L  Membership  of  Isaac 
Carlton,  11  50,  Benevolent  soc.  Han- 
nah Stearns  Tr.  2  50,  Female  Cent 
soc:    Mrs.    Frances  Burbank  Tr.  by 


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Gilman  Chapman,  in  part  to  consti- 
tute Isaac  Carlton  a  L.  M.  11  50, 
Timothy  Carter  in  part  to  constitute 
himself  a  L.  M.  5  00,  Eli  Twitchell 
don.  1  00. 

Bangor. 

First  Parish  by  hand  of  E.  Adams, 
Daniel  Kimball  1  00,  Charles  Plum- 
mer2  00,  Collected  by  Mrs.  C  Plum- 
mer  30  21,  Collected  by  Mrs.  B.  Ad- 
ams 2  13,  Collected  by  Mrs.  Carle  2 
00,  Collected  by  Mrs.  JH.  P.  Blood  13 
88,  James  Crosby  don.  5  00,  Mrs 
Foster  don.  25  cts .,  Mrs.  E.  L.  A 
Crosby  1  00,  Collected  by  Mr.  E 
Adams  55  00,  From  a  few  Students 
in  the  Theological  Sem.,  members  of 
Mr.  Maltby's  Cong.  3  75,  E.  F.  Du- 
ren  ent  1  00,  E.  F.  Duren  an.  1837 
2  00,  Geo.  W.  Brown  an.  1837,  2  00, 
Sundry  Members  of  Hammond  Street 
Church  and  Cong  75  88,  Prof.  Pond's 
don.  to  be  appropriated  to  Upper  Still- 
water 10  00  by  hand  of  Rev.  Mr 
Mallby,  Rev.  Mr.  Maltby's  sub.  to 
complete  L.  Membership  of  his  wife 
Mrs.  M.  G  Maltby  10  37,  Miss  Ruth 
Dutton  1  00,  James  Crosby  10  00,  A. 
G.  Brown  to  constitute  his  daughter 
Mary  Lincoln  a  L.  M.  20  00,  S.  J. 
Foster,  Joseph  Carr,  Nathaniel  Lord, 
J.  W.  Veazie  each  5  00,  A  Friend  3 
00,  J.  W.  Mason  10  00,  B.  Harlow. 
Mr.  Pearson  each  5  00,  A  Friend  50 
cts.,  Duren  &  Thatcher  10  00,  John 
FiskSOO,  Samuel  Smith  10  00,  T 
McGaw,  Geo.  W.  Brown  each  5  00, 
A  Friend,  G.  W.  Merrill  each  2  00, 
A  Friend  1  00,  George  Starrett  5  00. 
Abner  Taylor  10  00,  Benjamin  Wyalt. 
Rev.  S.  L.  Pomroy,  Prof.  E.  Pond! 
each  5  00,  Alexander  Drummond  2 
00,  Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Maltby's  soc. 
44  00,  Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Pomroy 's 
soc.  61  00  by  late  Rev.  S.  Johnson 
Booth  buy. 

Female  Miss.  soc.  by  Lydia  Auld  6 
68,  Cont  by  Cong.  soc.  by  Rev.  J. 
Baker  5 13. 

Bingham. 

Ephraim  Wood  don.  3  00,  Cont.  in 
Cong.  soc.  by  Rev.  Mr.  Tucker  5  00. 
Belfast. 

Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  McKeen's  soc. 
32  25,  Henry  Davidson,  Samuel  A. 
Moulton,  John  McKinley,  Luther 
Gannett,  Bailey  Pierce  each  an.  1837 
2  00,  Bailey  Pierce  don.  1  00,  Edward 
Beaman  2  00,  Frye  Hall  1  00,  Luther 


Smith  '25  cts.,  Sarah  Houston  1  50, 
Mary  Gilmore,  Mary  Butman,  each 
1  00. 

Buxton. 
Female  Cent  soc.    Mrs.    Lucy  Ric- 
Tr.  to  constitute  Rev.  Benj.  Puce   L 
M.  20,  Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Rice's   soc. 
4  77,  Rev.  Mr.  Rice  don.  10  00. 
liristol  Mills. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Carruthers'   soe. 
40  75. 

Bloomfield. 
John  Kimball  part  an.  1837,  1  00, 
Female  Cent  soc.  14  00,  Cont  in  Rev 
Mr.  Hathaway's  Society  7  25,  "Wid 
ow's  mite"  collected  by  late  Rev.  S. 
Johnson  93  cts. 

Brewer. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Lewis'  soc.  15  00, 
First  church  and  soc.    by   Rev.    W . 
Lewis  58  00. 

Brownville. 
Cont  in  Cong.   soc.    6  60,    Female 
Miss.   sog.  Mrs.    Eunice  Richardson 
Tr.  4  63. 

Bremen. 
Church  and  people  by  Rev.  E.  Gil- 
let  31  50. 

Brownfteld. 
Samuel  Stickney    an.    1836,  2  00, 
Ladies,  by  hand  of  Mrs.    Wentworth 
7  29. 

Bradford . 
Richard  Treat  by  Rev.   S.   Thurs- 
ton 8  00. 

Cumberland. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Weston's  soc.  9 
75,  Female  Miss.  soc.  10  00,  N  Ride- 
out  Jr.  an.  1836,  2  00,  Annual  cont. 
in  Cong.  soc.  by  hand  of  Rev.  J. 
Weston  6  51,  Ladies  in  Rev.  Mr. 
Weston's  soc.  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Sweetser  8  00. 

Chesterville. 
Cont.  in    Cong.  soc.   9  54,  Joseph 
French,  an   1837,  2  00,   Mrs.   Henry 
Sewall  dona  2  00. 

Cape  Elizabeth. 
Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.Merrill'ssoc5  96. 

Cornville. 
Sarah    Little    Hills,    Martha    Ann 
Hills,  Harriet  Tenney  Hills,  each  50 
cts.  James  Hills  to  constitute  himself 
and  wife  Ann  B.  Hills  L.  M.  40  00 
Camden. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  18  76,  Joseph 
Jones   an  1837  2  00,  Female  Miss'y 
soc  17  00  of  which  collected  in  1836 
37  24, Rev  Nath'l  Chapman  sub  5  00 


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Castine. 
Thomas  Adams  sub  60  00. 

Calais. 
George  Downes  an.  1834,  5  &  6,  C 


00. 

Deer  Isle. 
Female  Cent  sue.  Mrs.    Hannah  B. 
C.  Haskell,  Secretary  20  00. 
Dixmont. 
Avails   of    monthly    concert   3  12. 
Horace  Wilder   an    1637,  2  00,    Abel 
Wilder  dona  4  00,  Mrs.    Betsey    But 
man    an    1«37.   2  00,  A  Friend  1  00. 
A  Friend  25  cts.,  Thomas  Wilder  1  00 
by  Re?.  J.  R   Munsell,  Itev.  John  N 
Whipple  10  00. 

Danville. 
Mrs.  H.  W.  Adams  sub  2  00. 

D'afield. 
Church  by  Rev.  Mr.  Jordan  15  50 

Denmark. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  by  hand  of  Rev 
J.  Gooch  3  00.  Cont  in  Cong,  soc  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Gooch  2  80. 
Edgecomb. 
William  Cochran,  S.  Patterson  Jr. 
Joseph  Sherman,  each  ann  1837,  2  00. 
G.  Gove  2  00,  Eben'r  Chase  1836  1  00 
Eben'r  Chase  1837  2  00.  Mary  Havves 
Edward  Hawes  each  ent  1  00,  Com 
in  Cong,  ch  and  soc  20  60,  Cont  by 
children  in  Sab  school  1  15,  Ladies 
Asso  5  25  by  hand  of  G.  Gove — N.  B 
5  75  of  Cont  and  the  5  25  by  Ladies 
Asso  to  complete  L.  membership  of 
Mrs.  Temperance  Hawes;  Ruf'us  Sew- 
all  ann  1837  2  00 

East  Brewer. 
John  Farrington  Jr.  ann  1837  2  00. 

East  Machias. 
John  Dickinson  don   by    Rev.   Mr 
Stone  10  00,  Rev,  Thomas  Stone  ann 
1837  2  00. 

Easlport. 
Collected  at  Monthly  Concert  in 
central  Cong,  soc  by  Rev.  William 
Davenport  of  Perry  10  00,  From  be- 
nevolent Friends  in  Rev.  Moses  P 
Stiekney's  soc  to  constitute  himself  a 
L.  M.  20  00,  Central  Cong,  soc  by 
John  A.  Balkam  15  00,  Central  Cong, 
soc  42  00. 

Ellsworth. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr/1  enney's  soc  18  00. 

East  Tliomaston. 
For  supply  of  desk  by  Rev.  E.  Gil- 
let  14  00,  John  Lovejoy  1  00. 
Fryeburg. 
Cont  in  Rev  Mr    Hurd'e  soc  by| 


S.  Chaso  25  00,  Joseph  Colby  to  cop« 
stitute  his  daughter  Mrs.  Eliza  Walk- 
er a  L.M.  20  00,  J.  S.  Barrows  to 
complete  life  membership  of  his  son 
Goorge  B  Barrows  and  to  constitute 
Ins  son  J  S. Barrows  jr.  a  L  M.30  00, 
Cont.  in  Cong,  soc  by  Rev.  C.  Hurd 

16  00. 

Falmouth. 
Cont.  in  2d  church  and  soc  by  Rev, 
J.  B   Stevens    19  03,    Female  Missy 
soc.  10  02. 

Farmington. 
H.    Belcher   in    part    to   constitute 
himself  a  L   M   5  00,  John  Church  jr. 
dona  5  00,   John  Titcomb   2  00.  Fe- 
male Aux'y  soc  Mrs  Evelina  Belcher 
Tr.  to  constitute  Mrs.  E   F.  Rogers  a 
L.  M.  20  00,  Cont.  in  Kev.  Mr^Rog- 
ers's  soc  19  3l,  Rev.  Isaac  Rogers  in 
part  to  constitute    Isaac    Rogers  Ad- 
ams a  L.  M.  10  00,  Female   Friend  ot 
Missions  1  00,  Avails   of  Ear   Knobs 
sold  to  be   added   to  contribution   in 
Rev.  Isaac  Rogers  soc  25  cts. 
Free-port. 
Cont.  in  Cong,  soc  per  C.  Dilling- 
ham   11  19,  Cent  soc  Mrs.    Mary  Ba- 
con Tr.  8  26,  A  Friend, 2  00,  A  Friend 
50  cts.  Rev.  C.  H    Kent  sub  4  00. 
Fairfield. 
For  Rev.  Jotham    Sewall's  supply 
of  desk  by  Rev.  Dr.  Gillett,  25  00. 
Foxcroft  Sf  Dover. 
Cont.  in  Cong,  soc  by  Rev.  Joseph 
Loring  8  00. 

Frankfort. 
Rev.  S.  S.  Tappan  $20  of  which  to 
constitute  Mrs.  E.  L.  Tappan  his  wife 
a  life  member,  the  same  being  for  6 
weeks  missionary  labor  by  hand  of 
Dr.  Gillett  42  00. 

Ladies,  to  make  Rev.  S   S   Tappan 
a  L.  M.  by  Rev.  E.  Gillett  20  00. 
Fayette. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  4  96. 

Gray. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  White's  soc  by 
his  hand  6  00,    Mrs.  Mary  L.  Hamil- 
ton 50  cts. 

Gorham. 
Benevolent  soc  Thomas  S.  Robie 
Tr.  by  Toppan  Robie  150  00. 
Gardiner. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.   Sweetser's   soc. 

17  00,  Mon.  Con.  18  66,  Female  Miss, 
soc  Mrs.  Sweetser  Tr  8  17,  Mon  Con. 
cert  for  7  mons  by  Rev.  S  Sweetser 
614 


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Georgetown. 
Mrs.  Rosamond  Potter  sub  1  00,  So- 
phia Farnham  sub  1  50. 

Garland  and  Dexter. 
Con t  by    Cong     churches— $20    of 
which  is  to  consti  ute  Miss  June  Car- 
rmherB  a  L.  M.  by  Rev.  J.  Carulhers 
SoOO. 

Hirnm. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Gooch'ssoc  2  06. 
Rev.  Janips  Gooch  sub  5  DO.  Pelej; 
Wudswortli  nnn  18o6  2  00.  Cont  in 
Cong,  soc  3  00,  Rev.  .Mr.  Gooch  don 
2  00.  Cont  in  Cong,  soc  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Gooch  2  41. 

Houhon. 
Femnle  Benevolent  soc  7  00,  Other 
persons  7  00. 

H'l/ron  aad  West  Minot. 


Eben.  Dole  to  constitute  himself  a  L. 
M.  sub  20  00,  Mrs.  Sophia  E.  Bond  to 
complete    life    membership    of    Mrs. 
Lucy  D    Gilman  IS  00,  Elias  Bond  to 
'■  his  wile  Hophia  B.  Bond  a 
L.  M.  20  00,    Philander    Morton    col 
by  late  Rev.  S.  Johnson  5  00,  Samuel 
Titcoml-  by  Rev.  E.  Gillet  137. 
Industry. 
Rev.  A.  Boynt.m    5  00,    J.    Hayes, 
P.  Shorpy,  David  Luce,  Daniel  Luce, 
C.  Norton  each  1  00. 
Jackson. 
Ezra  Abbott,  Bordman  Johnson  each 
2U0. 

Kennef/vnk. 
C.  Williams  an  1837  2  00,    Joseph 
Titcomb  don  5  00,  Monthly    Concert 
7  70,  Samuel  Titcomb  3  00,  Monthly 


Moses  Allen  ann   1837   2  00,    Com  Concert  in  part  to   constitute  Rev.  J. 
in  ch  and  soc  by  Rev.  Mr.  Libby  2  75    W.  Powers  a  L.  M.by  Rev.  E.  Gillett 
Hampden. 

From  individuals  in  Rev.  Mr.  Ea 
Iter's  soc  60  00,  Individuals  in  Rev 
Mr.  Baker's  soc  by  late  Rev.  Mr 
Johnson  35  00. 

Harrison. 

P. Eastman  ann  1837  2  00  don  1  00 
Mrs.  Mary  Eastman  2  00 
Hallowell. 

Cont  in  Cong,  ch  and  soc  57  50,  A 
Friend  of  Missions  in  Memory  of  tin 
devoted  and  iamented  Lyman  &  Moo 
son  to  constitute  a  pair  of  Twins  nam- 
ed for  tliem,  sons  of  Mr.  E  G.  Dob 
L  M's.  40  00,  Female  Missionary 
Asso  to  constitute  Hev.  A.  R.  Baker 
a  L.  M.20C0,  Rufus  K.  Paaelo con- 
stitute his  wi(e  Mrs.  Marlha  H.  Parre 
a  L.  M  20  00,  MissE  W.  Leach  in 
part  to  constitute  Mis.-  E.  F.  Shepherd 
B  L.  M.  5  00,  S.  K.  Gilman,  Dea.  Jas 
Gow,  Dr.  15.  Page,  Miss  Julia  A 
Patrp,  Miss  Harriet  Pa^e  each  nnn 
1837  2  00    Hy    hand    of    Rev.    A.    R. 


(3  77. 

Kcnnclvnk  Port. 
Rev.  Mr.  Smith  sub  1  00.  Rev.  Mr. 
Smith's  soc  to  Constitute*  Seth  Bum« 
ham,  Wm.  Smith,  and  Oliver  Walk' 
er  life  members  by  D.  W.  Lord 
60  00 

Levant, 
From  the  church  in   Levant  and  a 
Tew  other  individuals  (2  00  of  which 
from  a  female  the  fruit   of  retrench- 
merit)  17  00,    R<-v.  R.    Page    3  00  to 
constitute  him  a  lile  member  20  GO. 
hihuvon. 
John  Moody  jr  an  1830  2  00,  Cont 
m  Cono.  ch  8  00,  Joseph  Grant,  John 
Moody  jr.  each  an  lc37  2  00,  by  Rev. 
A.  Cummings. 

Liming  ton. 
Female  Retrenchment  soc  11  00. 

Litchfield. 
Tho's  Smith  jr.  Isaac  Smith.  Z  B. 
Smith  each  nnn  1837,  2  00.  Cont.  in 
ch  and  soc  5  27,  Female  Cent  6oe 
Baker,  Augustus  Alden  ann  1837  2  Mrs.  Esther  Smith.  Tr.  5  73.  Monthly 
00,  Rev  Mr.  Belden  towards  consti-  Concert  and  cont.  collected  by  late 
tilting  his  wife  a  L.  M.  5  00,  Elias  Rev.  S.  Johnson  8  00,  Rev.  Timothy 
Bond  don.,  Eben  Dole  am  1837,  Wil-  Davis  dona  10  00. 
]iam  Stickney    ann    1837   each    2(0.|  Limerick. 


Fpmale  Religious  soc  by  Mrs  E 
Bond  20  37.  Monthly  Concert  by  M- 
E.Bond  53  61,  Monthly  Concert  44 
00,  Mrs.  SarMi  Moody  to  constitute 
herself  a  L.  M.  25  00.  Friend  ol  Mis- 
sions 50  cts,  Elias  Bond  balancp  tr. 
complete  his  life  membership  2  50. 
Jfcnfus  K.  Page  to  constitute  himself  a 
L.  M.  by  late  Rev.  S.  Johnson  2000, 


Rev.  C.  Freeman,  4  00,  Samuel 
Martin  5  CO,  J. din  A.  Merrill  4  CO, 
Simeon  Barker  1  00.  James  Bradbury 
2  00,  S.  A.  F  1  CO,  Smaller  subscrip- 
tions 7  15,  Cont.  in  Rpv.  Mr.  Free- 
man's soc  II  35,  Rev.  Charles  Free- 
man sub  3  CO. 

Lovell. 
Abraham  Andrews  in  part  to  consti- 


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idle  himself  a  L.  M.  5  00,  Stephen 
Andrews  in  part  to  constitute  himself 
a  L.  M.  3  00,  Josiah  Heald  in  part  to 
constitute  himself  a  L.  M.  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Gillett  2  00,  Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr. 
Hills's  soc  by  his  hand  7  57,  Josiah 
Heald  in  part  to  constitute  himself 
a  L.  M.  by  Rev.  A.  Cummings  5  00. 
Miscellaneous. 
Thomas  Harvvard  3  00,  A.  Friend 
10  00,  Priscilla  Murray  1  00,  Mrs 
Hill  2  00,  Lucy  Bacon  1  00  all  sub  at 
N  Yarmouth,  A  Female  25  cts.,  A 
Female  22  cts.  A  Female  4  cts.,  A 
Lady  by  Rev.  N.  W.  Sheldon  1  00, 
A  Friend  by  Rev.  Mr.  Maltby  250,  E. 
Auld  1  00,  Rev.  Mr.  Storrs  10  00, 
Hancock  &  Waldo  Conference  15  00, 
Cont  atYork  Conference  at  their  meet 
ing  at  Kennebunk  Port,  June  6,  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Gillett  47  70,  Rev.  H.  A 
Merrill  sub  3  00,  Premium  on  Specie 
sold  25  07,  Cumberland  Conference 
W.  D.  Little  Tr.  20  32,  Somerset 
Conference  of  chs  by  Rev.  Mr.  feet 
18  50,  Rev.  John  Turner  sub  10  00, 
From  Washington  Co  for  supply  of 
desk  by  Rev.  Jotham  Sewall  by  Rev 
E.  Gillett  91  00,  From  'a  widow,' 
enclosed  in  a  letter  to  Tr.  with  $1  for 
Education  soc  2  00,  Cont  Cumber- 
land Conf.  chs  Wm.  D.  Little  Tr 
100  54,  Interest  on  Jona.  Fessenden 
and  al.  Note  9  07,  Principal  of  above 
note  by  hand  of  John  Perley  200  00, 
From  a  Lady  for  extra  Missionary  ser- 
vice in  Raymond  25  00,  Lincoln  Co. 
Conference  of  chs  by  Rev.  D.  M. 
Milchell|13  16,  Washington  Co.  Con- 
ference chs  E.  C.  Wilder  Tr.  15  76, 
General  Conference  of  Maine  by 
Rev.  George  E.  Adams  Tr.  22  14, 
Lincoln  Co.  Conference  chs  by  Rev. 
D.  Kendrick  Tr.  20  00,  General  Con- 
ference of  Maine  by  Rev.  George  E. 
Adams  Tr.  27  47,  From  a  friend  of 
missions  by  Royal  Lincoln  4  00,  Div- 
idend on  Stock  in  Man.  and  Traders 
Rank  21  00,  Dividend  on  Stock  in 
Casco  Bank  27  00,  Cont  York  Conf. 
chs  at  Limerick  by  Rev.  C.  Freeman 
23  40,  Dividend  on  Stock  in  Traders 
&  Mannfacturers  Bank  21  00,  do  on 
Stock  in  Casco  Bank  29  25. 
Madison. 


Cont  in  Cong,  soc  3  66,  Benjamin 
Weston  an  1837  2  00. 
Milo. 
Mrs.  rnscilla  Lee  an  1637  2  00, 


Monson. 
Cont  by  Rev.  Mr.  Baker  5  00. 

Machias, 
Female  Miss   and   Education    eoc 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Crocker  Tr.  18  00.  W.  A. 
Crocker  an  1837  by  Rev.  Mr  Stone  2 
00. 

Monmouth. 
Neh.  Pierce  an  1837  2  00. 

Minot. 
Isaac  Allen,  S.  Poole,   Mrs.  E 
Jones  each  an   1837  2  00,     Female 
Aux'y  soc  18  12,  Cont  in  Rev.   Mr 
Jones'  society  7  33,  Isaac  Allen,  Sam- 
uel Poole,  Eliphalet  Packard,  Mrs  E. 
Jones  each  an  1836,  2  00,Coll   in  Rev 
Mr  Jones'  soc  12  13,    Ladies  Aux'y 
soc  Mrs.  Jones  Tr  by  hand  of   Rev. 
Mr  Jones  10  00,  Wm  Ladd  by  Rev, 
E.  Gillett  5  00,  Daniel   Freeman  an 
1836,  2  00,  Hez.  Packard  an   1837,  2 
00,  sub  2  00,  Daniel  Freeman  an  1837 
2  00,  Wm  Ladd  sub  10  00. 
Mercer. 
Samuel  Cordis  Q  00. 

New  Sharon. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  14  00,    Joshua 
Bullen  5  00,  Stephen  Hawes  an  1836 
Samuel  Wyman  each  2  00  by  Rev. 
Dr  Gillett. 

Newcastle. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr  Sew  all's  soc  35  56, 
Washington   Dodge   an    1837,  3  00, 
Bartlett  Sheldon  2  00. 

Norridgewock. 
Female  Aux'y  Asso  14  42,  Male  do 
do  6  75,  Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Peet's  soc 
6  33,  Wm  W.  Dinsmore  sub  I  00. 
New  Portland. 
Church  and  Society  2  56. 

Newjield. 
Ch  and  people  of  Rev.  Mr  Smith's 
soc  to  constitute  John  Garland  a   L. 
M.  200. 

New  Gloucester. 
Joseph  E.  Foxcroft  to  constitute 
himself  a  L.  M.  20  00,  From  Males 
and  Females  in  Cong,  soc  to  consti- 
tute Mrs.  Esther  M.  Newell  wife  of 
Rev.  Israel  Newell  a  L  M.  and  in 
part  to  constitute  Miss  Nancy  Mosely 
a  L.  M.  36  00,  Sewing  Circle,  Lower 
Village,  to  constitute  Miss  Sally  Col= 
lins  a  L.  M.  by  Miss  A  .  C.  M.  Fox- 
[  croft  Tr  20  00. 

North  Yarmouth. 
2d  Parish  Female   M  iss.   soc   Mre 
Hobart  Tr  26  57,  Cont  in  Rev  Mr 
Hobart'a  soc  15   00,  Dea,  W,    M, 


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Sweetser  an  1837  by  Rev.  Mr  Hobart 
2  00,  1st  Parish— Female  Cent  soc  60 
00,  Newell  soc  26  00,  John  Cutter  20 
00,  Thos  Chase  Jr.  10  00,  William 
Chandler,  Nathan  Dole  each  2  00, 
Joseph  Chandler  2d  5  00,  T.  G. 
Cleaves  1  00,  John  Soule  2  00,  Jere. 
Mitchell  5  00,  Jacob  G.  Loring  10  00, 
Rev.  D.  Shepley  5  00,  Sylvanus 
Blanchard  balance  to  constitute  his 
wife  Dorcas  Blanchard  a  L.  M.  10  00, 
John  Cutler  Jr.  4  00,  Enoch  Chand- 
ler 5  00,  Allen  H.  Weld,  William 
Gooding,  N.  Dole  ent,  Mathias  Allen 
each  1 00,  Daniel  Mitchell  2  00,  Sam- 
uel Sweetser  5  00,  Sam'l  Sweetser  an 
1837  2  00,  Edmund  Cleaves  1  00, 
Samuel  Mason  1  00,  Reuben  Chand- 
ler 1  00,  Levi  Blanchard  2  00,  Gent 
by  Sam'l  Sweetser  50  cts.  Cont.  alter 
the  Annual  Sermon  in  the  Academy 
11  00,  in  the  Meeting  House  153  37, 
to  be  added  to  cont  50  cts.  by  hand  of 
Tho's  Chase  jr.,  F.  A.  Pomroy  sub 
10  00,  John  Cutter  an  1837  2  00,  J. 
M.  Gooch  dona  1  00,  Avails  of  Ring 
sold  37  cts.  Avails  of  Silver  Clasp,  8 
cts.  Thomas  Chase  an  1837  2  00. 
Norlhport. 
D.  Miller,  by  Rev.  E.  Gillet  1  00. 

North  Kcnnebunk-Port. 
Joseph  Burnham  an  1837  by  Rev. 
J.  Carruthers  2  00. 

Konoay, 
Cont.  at  the  meeting  of  the  Oxford 
Conf.  churches  June  7,  by  Rev.  Asa 
Cummings  24  70. 

Otisfield. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.  Richardson's  soc 
14  00,  Female  Miss'y  soc  6  00,  to  con 
stitute    Mrs.  Mary  Richardson  L.  M. 
20  00,  Silas  Blake  an  1836  &  '374  00, 
Old  Town. 
From  Ladies  to  const   Mrs    Sarah 
Lovejoy  a   L.   M.   collected  by   late 
Rev.  S.  Johnson  20  00. 
Orrington- 
Cont   in   Cong,   soc  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Pearl  10  00. 

Oxford. 
Ladies  in  Rev.   A.  P.  Chute's  soc 
to  constitute  him  a  life  member  20 
00. 

Portland . 
Nath'l  Cross  an  1837  2  00,  Cont  in 
2d  Cong,  soc  by  E.  Greeley  105  44, 
Avails  of  Gold  Ring  found  in  contri- 
bution box,  50  cts.  Female  Sewing 
Circle  in  3d  Cong,  soc  Mias  Deborah 


Gordon  Tr  to  constitute   Misses  Sa 
rah  Jane  Mitchell  and  Margaret  Riel- 
ly  L.  M.  40  00,  Miss'y  Sewing  Circle 
Miss  C.  E.  Merrill  Tr  20  00  to  const 
Mr.  Cyrus   Hamlin  a   L.  M.  114  00, 
Joseph  M.  Gerrish  an  1837  2  00,  John 
How  sub  2  00,  E.  C.  Stevens  an  1837 
2  00,  C.  G.  Downes  an  1837  2  00,  Fe- 
male Sewing  Circle  3d  Cong,  society 
Miss  D.  Gordon  Tr  3  00,   Joshua  B. 
Osgood, Mrs.  Joshua  B.  Osgood,  John 
Chute,  W.  W.  Thomas,  Rev .  E.  Kel- 
logg don,  L.  Cross,  N.Cram,  Joseph 
Adams,  Eben'r  Steele  each  ann  1837 
2  00,   W.  Storer  sub  to  constitute  his 
wife  Mary  B.  Storer  a  L.  M.  20  00, 
Female  Miss'y  soc  Mrs.   E.  Greeley 
Tr  58  56,  W.   C.    Mitchell,    W.  G. 
Mitchell,  J.   D.    Kinsman   each   ann 
1837  2  00,  Cont  in   High  St  church 
exclusive   of  subscriptions  72  75,  to 
be  added  to  coll   in    High  St  church 
from  Tho's  Tolman  2  00,    Win.  Lord 
ann  1837  2  00,  Female  Miss'y  society 
Mrs.  E,  Greely  Tr  2  00,   Cont  in  3d 
Cong,  soc  including  20  00  contributed 
by  Jos.  Libby  to  const   his  wife  Mrs. 
Lucy  Libby  a  L.  M.  and  3  00  ent  and 
an  1'837  of  A.  H.  Putney  86  88,  Sam'l 
Chase  an  1837  2  00,  Miss  Jane  Lovis 
50  cts.  Rev.  J.    Carruthers  to  consti- 
tute his  daughter  Ellen  Carruthers  a 
L.  M.  20  00,  Miss'y  Sewing  Circle  by 
Miss  Jane  Lincoln  2  00,   J.  Gardiner, 
Oliver  Everett  each  an  1836  2  00,  J. 
Stevens   an   1835—6  4  00,   Edward 
Howe  an  1834  '5  '6  6  00,  Curtis  Me- 
servey  dona  by  E.  Hayes  1  00,    Eze- 
kiel  Day  an   1835—6  4  00,    Paul    E. 
Merrill  an  1833,  4, 5, 6, 7, 10  00,  Leg- 
acy of  John  A.   Smith   by  Mrs.  Har- 
riet M.  Smith  ext.  100  00,  Jere.   Ste 
vens  an  1837  2  00,  From  a  member  of 
High  St  ch  40  00,   Female    Cent  soc 
in  3d  Cong,  soc  Mrs.  Mary  W.  Hayes 
Tr  23  31,  Rev.  A.  Cummings  to  con- 
stitute Dea.  James  Brown  of  Danvers 
Mass.  a  lite  member  20  00,  Joshua  B. 
Osgood  to  be  applied  to  aid  church  in 
Denmark  50  00,  Female  Sewing  Cir- 
cle 3d  Cong.  soc.  Miss  Deborah  Gor- 
don Tr.  to  const  Rev.  George  H.  Hu- 
lin  a  life  member  20  00,  Miss  Cathe- 
rine Martin  to   const  Mrs.  Catherine 
M.  Fuller  of  Augusta  a  L.  M.  20  00, 
Miss  Eliza  Martin  to  const  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth Brown  of  Andover  Mass.  widow 
of  late  President  Brown  a  L.  M.  20  00, 
Wm.  Martin,  Miss   Penelope  Martin 


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each  5  00,  Rev.  E.  Kellogg  200,  Mrs. 
Michael  Little  5  00. 

Paris. 
Din'l   Stowell  aim  183G  &   1837. 
4  00. 

Phipsbur<r. 
Cnnt  in   Cong,    soc   by    Rev.    Mr 
Boynton  21  00,  M,  L.  Hill  ah  1837  2 
00. 

Poland. 
John  Cousins  in  part  to    constitute 
himself  a  L.  M.  by  Riv.  T.  Williams 
10  00 

Parsnvsfi'Id. 
Cont  in  Gong,  soc  by  Rev.  Mr  Free 
man  10  0J. 

Pemnquid. 
Cont  by  Rev.  J.  Carruthers  52  00. 

Phillip*. 
Female  Miss'y  soc  Mrs.  S.  C.  Foye 
Tr  3  50. 

Pol  tin 'I. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr  Williams'  soc  3  69 

Pitts  ton 
Cont  by  hand  ol     Den.    Follansbee 
7  03,  Cont  by  hand  of  Rev.  Dr  Gil 
lett  4  5G. 

Prrry. 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr  fjavpnnort's  soc  2 
59,  Cong,  church  by  Rev.E.  Kello 
15  12. 

Pownal.. 
Cont  in  Rev.    Mr    Chapin's  soc    t<> 
aid  church  in  West  Mi  not  and  Hebron 
13  00. 

Prospect. 
Female  Miss'y  soc  .35  00,  Subscrip- 
tions in  Rev  Mr  Thurston's  soc  65  00 
A  Friend  by  Rev  S.  Thurston,  James 
Roulstone  by  do  each  1  00. 
Rohbinston. 
Cyrus  Balkain   aim    1835—0   4  00, 
Cong,  soc  8  28. 

Hnodfir.ld. 
Jere  Pa<»e  an  1330  by  Rev.  E.  Gil 
lett  2  00. 

Stillwater. 
Cont  col  by  late  Rev  S.  Johnson  27 
79,  Old  Town  by  late    Rev    S.  John 
son  S  76. 

South,  Berwick. 
First  Cong,  son  cont  nt  Monthlv 
Concert  ii4  Jan.  and  Feb.  of  1837,  $'20 
of  which  is  to  constitute  Rev  Andrew 
Rankin  a  L.  M  by  Chas  E.  Norton 
23  00. 

Sweden. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  by  Rev  Tho's  T 
Stone  7  35. 


Saco. 
Ch  and  soc  by  Rev  Mr  Hopkins  57 
73,  Josiah  Calefan  1835  6  7  6  00,  A. 
F.  Symonds,  P.  15.  Mellen,  Lnuristoq 
Ward  each  an  1837  2  00,  John  P.  Mel- 
len, A.  F.  Svinonds,  L  Wart!  eacli  an 

1836  2  00.    Sim'l   Mno.lv  an   1836  &  7 

4  00,  Ether  Shepley,J.  M.  Hayes  each 

5  CO,  Samuel  Hartley  2  00  by  Rev  E. 
Gdleit,  From  Ladies  to  constitute 
Mrs  Hopkins  (wile  of  Rev  S.  Hop. 
kins)  a  L.  M.  by  Miss  Leland  20  00, 
J.  B  Thornton  to  constitute  his  wile 
Mrs  E.  B.  Thornton  a  L.  M.  20  00. 

Stand  is/i. 
Cont    by    Individuals    by   Rpv  IWr 
Perry  3  00,  Rev  Clark  Perry  sub  5  00. 
South  Paris. 
Benevolent  soc  by  Rev  Mr  Walker 
15  00. 

Snmnrr. 
Cont  bv  Rev  Mr  Sewall's  soc  9  00, 
Increase  Robinson  ii!  pari  toconstiiute 
Himself  a  L.  Mi  10  00,  Increase  Rob- 
iuson  an  1836  2  00,  do  don  100  by 
Uethuei  Cary. 

Scarborough. 
Mrs  Selh  Storer  sol)   5  00,    do  en- 
trance and    annuity    for    1836    3<)0, 
Henry    G.    Smr-r   ent   and    an    3  00, 
Cnnt  in  Rev  Air  Jameson's  soc    14  56, 
Rev  Thos  Jameson  an  1837  2  00. 
St  Albuns. 
Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Douglas'  soc  3  35, 
iN.  Tenney  an  1336  and  parl'37    3  £0. 
Sedgwick. 
Cont  in  Cong,   ch  bv  Rev  M.  Ellis 
2  0J. 

Strong. 
Cont   in  Conij.  sue    6  50,    Ladies 
Miss'y  soc  10  00. 

Smith  Snlnn. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  5  00. 

Sehcc. 
Cont  in  Con?.  s..c2  30. 

Swmville. 
Cont  in  Cong,  sne  3  00,    From  the 
Treasurer  of  ihe    orphan     Miss'y    soc 
residing  in   Swanville   $10    including 
$5  50  emit  at  Swanville  and  paid  into 
the  Treasury  in  June  last  to  constitute 
Rev  Geo  Brown  of  Swanville  $•  Rev 
Jos  A.   E.    Long  a    second    lime    life 
members    34  50-N.    B.    $15    nt    the 
•  hove  was  paid  by  the  Swanville  and 
West  Prospect  Female  Miss'y  soc. 
Sanford. 
John  Frost  2d  an  1837  2  00,    S.  B. 
Emery  50  cts,  John  Skeel  1  00, 


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Tkomaston. 
John  S.  Abbott  to  constitute   him- 
self and  his   wife    Mrs   Elizabeth  T 
Abbott  L.  M.  40  00,    Female    Miss'y 
soc  Mrs  H.  L.  Prince  Tr  24  80,  Com 
in  Rev    Mr  Woodhull's  soc  20  20    by 
Rev  Mr    Woodhull,    Cont   in    West 
Thoniaston  10  38,  Cont  in  EastThom- 
astnn  7  12,    Female  Miss'y    soc  Mr 
C.  T.  Swan  Tr  21  50,  Two  friends  of 
Missions  by  Rev  Mr  Woodhull  11  00, 
John  Paine  an  1 63G  by    Rev   Dr    Gil 
lett  2  00,    received   in    a   letter  from 
Tbornaston  29th   May  anonymous  10 
00. 

Turner. 
William    Barrell   an  1837   by   Rev 
Mr  Greeley  2  00,  Cont  by  the   peopl 
in  that  place  by  Rev  Mr  Greeley  3  50. 
John    Turner   to   constitute   his   wifr 
Mrs  Deborah  Turner  a    L.  M.   20  00, 
same  to  complete  his  own    L.    Mem- 
bership 10  00,  Luther  Cr.ry   an    1837 
2  00,  Cong,  cont  by  J.  B.  Barrell  4  00, 
John  Turner  an  lfc-36  2  00,  John  Tur- 
ner in  part  to  constitute  himself  a  L. 
M.  10  00,  Female  Charitable  soc  Mrs 
Phebe  Dresser  Tr  in  part  to  constitute 
Rev  D.  Libbey  a  L.  M.  10  00. 
Temple. 
Cont  by  Female  Miss'y  soc  in  part 
to  constitute  Joseph  H.  Conant  a    L 
M.  3  56,    Jno   Conant  by    Rev   Mr 
Shepherd  50  cts. 

Topshum. 
RevThos  N.  Lord  sub  2  00. 

Union. 
Joseph  Morse  don  5  00,  Other  Male 
members  of  ch  4  25,   Ladies  in   ch    2 

94,  Morse  an  1836  by  Dr  .Gillett 

2  00. 

Unity. 
Cont  in  Cong,  soc  3  08. 
Uzbridge,  Muss. 
Miss  Sarah  Judson  sub  by  hand  of 
Rev  Mr  Maltby  5  00. 

Vassalborough. 
Cont  in  South  Cong,  soc  4  30    Otis 
Hawes  don  2  00. 

Waldoboro' '. 
Female  Domestic  Miss'y  soc  $1  of 
which  from  Miss  Jane  Ann  Reed  13 
00,  Cont  in  Rev.  Mr  Mitchell's  soc  15 
36,  $20  of  which  is  to  constitute  Rev 
James  Carruthers  a  life  member,  Jas. 
Hovey,  Payne  Elwell,  Mrs  P.  Elwell, 
Samuel  Morse,  Rev  D.  M.  Mitchell, 
Mrs  M.  C.  Mitchell,  R.  C.  Webb, 
Sally  T    Webb,    James  Cook,  John 


Bulfinch,  Mrs  BulBnch,  T.  D.  Cur 
ner,  Jane  Reed,  William  Cole  each 
an  1837  2  00,  Rev  David  Starrett  in 
part  to  constitute  Mrs  Susan  Starrett 
life  member  10  00,  Rebecca  Elwell 
don  1  00,  Children  of  Rev.  D.  M. 
Mitchell  4  64,  Avery  Webb,  John 
Bulfinch,  Geo  Light  and  wife  each 
donation  1  00,  Samuel  Morse  by 
Rev  David  Mobec  Mitchell  donation 
5  00. 

IVinthrop. 
Anson  G.  Stanley,  Daniel  Carreach 
an  1837  2  00,  Cont  in  Cono-.  soc  23 
73,  Seth  May  an  1836  7  4  00,  Female 
Asso  for  dom  and  for  Missions  Mrs  E. 
Newman  Tr  19  68,  Lydia  Cushmg  J 
00,  Rev  D.  Thurston  3  00,  Elijah, 
Wood  collected  by  late  Rev  S.  John- 
son 2  00. 

Wayne. 
Eliza  G.  Knight  sub  1  00. 

Weld. 
Female  Assistant  soc  Mrs  A.  Fobei 
Tr  to  constitute  Rev  E  Fobes  a  life 
member  20  00,  Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Fobes' 
soc  6  24,  Cong,  soc  for  supply  of  desk 
by  Rev  Win  Miltimore  36  00  by  Rev 
E.  Gillett. 

Wilton. 
Female  Miss'y  soc  to  complete  the 
life  membership  of  Mrs  Samuel  Tal- 
bott  12  62,  Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Talbot's 
soc  8  55,  Monthly  Concert  5  00,  Eli- 
slia  Bass,  John  Barker  each  an   1837 

2  00. 
Waterville. 

Mrs  Thomas  Adams  in   part  $20 
subscribed  at  annual  meeting  5  00 
Waterford. 

Samuel  Warren  to  complete  his  life 
membership  10  00,  Leander  Gage  don 

3  00,  Cont  in  Cong,  soc  by  Rev  Mr 
Douglass  IS  07,  Henry  Sawin  by  Rev 
A.  Cummings  2  00,  Cont  in  (,'ong 
soc  19  37,  Left  by  late  Mary  Chaplin 
deceased  by  Rev.  John  A.  Douglas* 
2  00. 

Wells. 
Joseph  Gilman  an  1837  2  00,  Sam- 
uel Curtis  and  another  individual  to 
constitute  himself  a  life  member  $20, 
Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Oliphant's  soc  $6j. 
Ladies  in  First  Parish  to  constitute 
Samuel  B.  Littlefield  a  life  member 
$20 


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Woolwich. 

Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Goss'a  soc  f  1  27, 
Dea.  Z.  Farnham  an  1837  $2. 
Wesibrook. 

Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Searle's  soc  14  10, 
Individuals  1  25. 

Rev  Jos  Searlesub  10  00,  do  dona 
4  00,  Individuals  1  75. 
Wiscasset. 

Eben'r  Hilton,  Henry  Clark,  John 
Brooks,  Wilmot  Wood  each  $10,  S. 
P.  Baker,  Edmund  Dana,  Jas  Taylor, 
Warren  Rice  each  $5,  Joshua  Young 
$3,  James  Averill  $2,  K.  Cushinan 
$1,  Mrs  Hannah  Cushman  1  50,  Mrs 


Hannah  Millen  $2,  Miss  Lucy  Hob 
inson  50cts.  L.  A.  Sweat  $1,  A  Lady 
0  50,  Rev  Freeman  Parker  $2,  Rev 
y.  White  $10  to  be  appropriated  to  ths 
church  in  Mercer,  Somerset  County 
by  Rev  Mr  White. 

Windham. 

Cont  in  Rev  Mr  Shepherd's  soc   6 
61,  Cont  by  Rev  E.Gillett  3  64. 
Wins  law. 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Jewett's  soc.  $16? 
Frederic  Paine  an.  1837,  $2. 
Washington. 

Cont  in  church  to  constitute  Mr  C. 
Starret  a  life  member  $20. 


N    B.     The  various  sums  in  the  foregoing  lists  amount  to  $8,251  95. 


The  following  sums  were  received  from  July  1,  to  July  19, 1837. 


Bremen. 
Ladies  Cent  soc  by  Rev.  J. 
Carruthers, 

Brewer. 
Second  Church,  by  Geo.  A. 
Thatcher, 

Buxton. 
James  Emery,  don. 

Bangor. 

D.  Warren, 

E.  Chambers, 

by  Geo.  A.  Thatcher. 
Brunswick. 
R.  P.  Dunlap,  don. 
Miss  D.  Giddings,  an.  1837, 
by  Rev.  G.  E.  Adams, 
Cape  Elizabeth. 
To  be  added  to  cont.  by  hand 
of  Rev.  A.  Cummings, 
Cumberland. 
Nicholas  Rideout,  Jr.,  an.  1837, 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Weston, 
Falmouth. 
Mrs.  W.  Miltimore,  sub.  by 
Rev.  A.  Cummings, 
Gilead. 
Eliphalet  Burbank,  (in  shoes) 
by  Rev.  J.  G.  Merrill, 
Houlton. 
S.  Houlton,    by  George  A. 
Thatcher, 

Lewislon  Falls. 
Rev.  W.B.Adams,  sub. 

North  Yarmouth. 
Capt.  D.  Seabury.  by  hand  of 


4  25 


4  75 

5  00 

62 
25 


20  00 
2  00 


173 


2  00 


5  00 


150 


5  00 


32  75 

35  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

in 

c. 

10  00 


Thomas  Chase,  Jr.,  towards 
constituting  himself  a  life 
member,  10  00 

Orono. 
First  Church, 
Second  Church, 

by  Geo.  A.  Thatcher. 
Portland. 
Thomas  Tolman,  sub. 
Mrs.  Jane  Tolman,  sub. 
E.  Day,  an.  1837, 
Henry  Jackson, 
Miss  Mary  Smith,  sub. 
A  Friend  of  Missions" 
part  to  constitute    C. 
Mitchell  a  life  member, 
Shelburne. 
Church  and  Soc.  by  hand  of 
Barker  Burbank,  5  00 

Waldoborough. 
John  Bulfinch,  by  hand  of  W. 

C.  Mitchell,  15  00 
which  with  $2  paid  by   him, 

$2  by  Mrs.  Bulfinch,  and  $1 
by  his  son  Jno.  Bulfinch, 
received  by  hand  of  Rev. 

D.  M.  Mitchell,  at  North 
Yarmouth,  June  28,  last  is 
to  constitute  himself  a  life 
member. 

Wesibrook. 
Rev.  Mr.  Searle,  don.  26  00 

Con  t  in  Rev.  Mr.  Lane's  So.  12  75 

Warren. 
Benevolent  Soc,  Jesse  Page 


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Treasurer,  16 13 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Cutter's 
Society,  to  constitute  Jesse 
Page  a  life  member.  21  41 

William  Hovey,  an.  1837,         2  00 


Jesse  Page,  an.  1837,  2  00 

James  Starrett,  en.  1837,  2  00 

Lewis  Vaughan,  an.  1837,  2  00 
Rev.  E.  F.  Cutter,  an.  1837,  2  00 
Mrs.  E.  F.  Cutter,  ent.  &  an.  3  00 


WOODBURY  STORER,  Trtaa.  M.  M.  S. 
Portland,  July  19,  1837. 


LIFE  MEMRERS. 

[The  following  list  embraces  only  the  names  of  such  as  have  been  made  life- 
members  the  past  year.  The  Committee  of  publication  did  not  anticipate  any  lack 
of  room,  when  they  procured  paper  and  made  the  contract  for  a  pamphlet  of  the 
usual  size  ;  and  could  not  conveniently  extend  it,  when  they  discovered  their  mis- 
take. A  complete  list  may  be  expected  next  year,  and  a  less  crowdgd  page  to 
receive  the  Treasurer's  acknowledgements.] 


John  S.  Abbott.  Thomaston, 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  T.  Abbott,  do. 

Geo.  B.  Barrows,  Fryeburg, 

Jno.  S.  Barrows,        do. 

Mary  Lincoln  Brown,  Bangor, 

Mrs  Sophia  E.  Bond,  Hallowell, 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Brown,  Andover,  Mass. 

Seth  Bumham.KennebunkPort, 

Elias  Bond,  Hallowell, 

James  Brown,  Danvers,  Mass. 

Rev.  A.  R.  Baker,  Hallowell. 

John  Bulfinch,  Waldoborough, 

Mrs.  Dorcas  Blanchard,  North  Yarmouth 

James  L.  Child,  Augusta, 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Child,  do. 

Miss  Jane  Carruthers,  Portland, 

Rev.  A.  P.  Chute,  Oxford, 

Miss  Sally  Collins,  New  Gloucester, 

Samuel  Curtis,  Wells, 

Isaac  Carlton,  Bethel, 

Miss  Ellen  Carruthers,  Portland, 

Eben'r  Dole,  Hallowell, 

Henry  Lyman  Dole,  do. 

Samuel  Munson  Dole,  do. 

Stephen  Deering,  Augusta, 

Mrs.  Catharine  Fuller,  do. 

Joseph  E.  Foxcroft,  New  Gloucester, 

Rev.  Ephraim  Fobes,  Weld, 

Mrs.  Ehzabath  Philbrook,Bath. 

Mrs.  Lucy  D.  Gilman,  Hallowell. 

Mrs.  S.  Hopkins,  Saco, 

Rev.  Geo.  H.  Hulen,  Connecticut, 

Mrs.  Temperance  Hawes,  Edgecomb, 

Cyrus  Hamlin,  Portland, 

Mrs.  Ann  B.  Hills,  Cornville, 

James  Hills,  do. 


Sam'l  B.  Littlefield,  Wells, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Lovejoy,  Old  Town. 
Mrs,  Lucy  Libby,  Portland. 
Mrs.  Esther  M.  Newell,  Durham. 
Rev.  William  M.  Mather,  Mass. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Moody,  Hallowell, 
Miss  Sarah  Jane  Mitchell,  Portland, 
David  C.  Magoun,  Bath, 
Mrs.  Margaret  M.  G.  Maltby,  Bangoi, 
Mrs.  Hannah  C.  Magoun,  Bath. 
Rufus  K.  Page,  Hallowell, 
Mrs.  Martha  H.  Page,  do. 
Rev.  Robert  Page,  Levant, 
Jesse  Page,  Warren. 
Rev.  Andrew  Rankin,  South  Berwick, 
Mrs.  Mary  Richardson,  Otisfield, 
Benj.  T.  Rogers,  Providence  R.  I. 
Rev.  Benj.  Rice,  Buxton, 
Miss  Margaret  Rielly,  Portland, 
Mrs.  E.  F.  Rogers,  Farmington. 
William  Smith,  Kennebunk-Port, 
Mrs.  Mary  Sprague,  Bath, 
Mrs.  Mary  B.  Storer,  Portland, 
Calvin  Starrett,  Washington, 
Rev.  Moses  P.  Stickney,  Eastport 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Tappan,  Frankfort, 
Rev.  S.  S.  Tappan,       do. 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Thornton,  Saco, 
Mrs.  Deborah  Turner,  Turner, 
John  Turner,  do. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Talbot,  Wilton. 
Samuel  Warren,  Waterford, 
Oliver  Walker,  Kennebunk-Port, 
Mrs.  Eliza  Walker,  Fryeburg, 
Mrs.  Hannah  Williams,  Augusta, 
Miss  Helen  Williams,         do. 


Marcus  Quincy,  Mrs.  Mary  Swan,  Portland.    [Heretofore  Omitted.] 

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